Chapter 3

Question 1

Who is the most skilled sculpture in 1504, and what did he create?

Answer 1

Michelangelo created a biblical hero David

Question 2

What did Michelangelo want his work to do to the people of Florence?

Answer 2

He wanted to encourage the people of Florence in their struggle to be free of their enemies and the powerful Medici family who had controlled the city for so long

Question 3

Where did the new way of thinking start?

Answer 3

It started in the northern Italian city-states

Question 4

What are humanists and what did they do?

Answer 4

They are scholars who looked back to the ancient classical civilizations of Greece and Rome

Question 5

What did Humanists study and what did they add them to?

Answer 5

Greek and Roman writings and art and applied classical ideas in their own lives and work

Question 6

What did Humanists admire in the Renaissance?

Answer 6

The eloquent writing styles of ancient writers and became interested in their ideas about SOCIETY, POLITICS, HISTORY, AND THE ARTS

Question 7

What are the Greek and Roman civilizations called?

Answer 7

“Classical Civilization”

Question 8

What did the Islamic civilization do for the “Classical Civilization”?

Answer 8

They preserved the knowledge and further developed it in the sciences, math, and medicine the great civilizations of India and the far East

Question 9

Where did Humanists ideas spread to?

Answer 9

Mainly among the wealthy people in society

Question 10

What was the fad in the new merchant and business class?

Answer 10

Reading and discussing ancient writers

Question 11

What did Humanists believe to have on the Mind and Body?

Answer 11

To have a good mind and a good body

Question 12

What did humanists believed to have on History?

Answer 12

To have knowledge of the celebrated men to be considered a adult

Question 13

What did humanists believe to have on Education

Answer 13

If you don’t have an education you are living the way you should be

Question 14

Why did Humanists believe to develop ones talents was to serve God?

Answer 14

Because God had provided you with those talents

Question 15

The First thing Humanists believed was?

Answer 15

Human beings can use the power of reason, that is, thinking to find the truth for themselves

Question 16

What was the second thing the Humanists believed in?

Answer 16

It is important for a person to have an open, curious, and questioning mind

Question 17

What was the third thing the Humanists believed in?

Answer 17

People can achieve great things through learning

Question 18

What was the fourth thing the Humanists believed in?

Answer 18

Individuals should be skilled in many different area, They should develop not just their minds but also their bodies and spirits

Question 19

What did the Greeks develop?

Answer 19

The jury system and the Olympic Games

Question 20

What did Roman writers produce?

Answer 20

Great poetry, drama, and history

Question 21

What did Philosophers do?

Answer 21

Taught people how they could improve themselves and their society

Question 22

What did greeks master in?

Answer 22

Drama, sculpting, architecture, mathematics, and historians

Question 23

What did Petrarch see the Classical past as?

Answer 23

A glorious time

Question 24

What happened to the Greek and Roman manuscripts?

Answer 24

They have been preserved in the libraries in the Muslim world and in the Monasteries

Question 25

What did Petrarch and other humanists do?

Answer 25

Collected the Greek and Roman manuscripts `

Question 26

What did humanists want to do to these manuscripts?

Answer 26

Wanted to make the ideas in these accents works available to the widest possible leadership

Question 27

What did humanists think people had to do to become truly cultured?

Answer 27

A person should read good books and look at great works of art

Question 28

What usually were Humanists?

Answer 28

Humanist teachers, philosophers, teachers, public officials, writers, scientists, architects, artists, and musicians

Question 29

Humanists were usually…..?

Answer 29

Well educated and had an impact on people

Question 30

What is Civic Humanism?

Answer 30

Believed that being a responsible citizen meant educating yourself about your history and political issues and working to improve society

Question 31

Civic Humanists believed that being a responsible citizen meant what?

Answer 31

Education yourself about history and political issues and working on improving society

Question 32

Renaissance Humanists were interested in what?

Answer 32

What classical authors had written about good government