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Question 1

When was the renaissance period?

Answer 1

C1500-C1700

Question 2

What new inventions came around in the renaissance period?

Answer 2

The water pump, the printing press, encyclopaedias, microscopes

Question 3

Why did the invention of the printing press cause developments of medicine in the renaissance period?

Answer 3

New more diverse ideas, more books and reading, further and faster spread of information, not controlled by church, inspire other technological developments

Question 4

Why did the invention of the microscope cause developments of medicine in the renaissance period?

Answer 4

New discoveries (bacteria/viruses etc), very beginning of the understanding of illness or disease

Question 5

Why did exploration cause developments of medicine in the renaissance period?

Answer 5

Opportunity for new ideas, new herbs/remedies, ideas from other countries

Question 6

Why did better scientific understanding cause developments of medicine in the renaissance period?

Answer 6

Better cures/treatments, understand causes and preventions, challenge the church as well as Galen’s and Hippocrates’ ideas

Question 7

Name 3 influential people of the renaissance period?

Answer 7

William Harvey, Andreas Vesalius, Thomas Sydenham