Causes Of The Renaissance

Question 1

Causes of the renaissance

Answer 1

1. Decline in the power of the church
2. Rise in SECULARISM - relating to the word worlds
3. Reintroduction of the CLASSICS (Greeks and Roman cultures)
4. PRINTING PRESS
5. New wealth (from trade with Ottoman Empire)

Question 2

Birthplace of the reinassance

Answer 2

Italy

Question 3

Major city states of the Renaissance:

Answer 3

1. Florence. Venice, Milan, genoa

Question 4

Most influential/wealthy family

Answer 4

The Medici family

Question 5

he Renaissance was a

Answer 5

Renewed interest and development in art, literature, science and learning

Question 6

Te word Renaissance means

Answer 6

Rebirth

Question 7

Humanism - the thinkers of this period were called humanists

Answer 7

An intellectual movement that focused on the study of human potential and achievement

Question 8

Humanists emphasized _________ __________ The potential of the human was limitless!

Answer 8

Individual accomplishment

Question 9

Father of humanism

Answer 9

Francesco Petrarch

Question 10

Many humanists rejected religion. Why?

Answer 10

Because of the corruption of the Catholic Church!

Question 11

Religion of te renaissance

Answer 11

Deism

Question 12

Middle age art stressed mostly religious themes, and idealism

Answer 12

Renaissance art stressed worldly themes and realism vs. idealism

Question 13

New art techniques

Answer 13

1. Perspective

2. Oil paints

Question 14

Supporters of the artists

Answer 14

Merchants. - Nobility, merchants, etc.

Question 15

4 Italian artists

Answer 15

1. Leonardo do Vinci: Mona Lisa
2. Michelangelo: the Sistine chapel
3. Raphael: madonna
4. Donatello: one of the greatest sculptures in the period

Question 16

How did the northern renaissance spread?

Answer 16

Trade, war, students, PRINTING PRESS

Question 17

The printing press was developed by some dude named

Answer 17

Johannesburg Gutenberg

• Movable printing press that is

Question 18

Novels (fantasy books were finally written in in the vernacular for the first time

Answer 18

Common language of the people

Question 19

Father of Christian humanism

Answer 19

Desiderious Erasmus

Question 20

Sir Thomas More wrote a book called ______ that criticized the English government

Answer 20

Utopia - called for a perfect community based on reason and living together in harmony! (Ideal perfection)

Question 21

Major differences between art in the north and south

Answer 21

South: painted mostly Greek and Roman gods and Biblical heroes - religious themes

North: painted mostly common Everyday people and secular themes

Question 22

Results and impacts of the renaissance

Answer 22

1. Great works of art and literature created
2. Modern day science
3. Critical thinking
4. Scientific revolution
5. Enlightenment