New Ideas and Knowledge

Question 1

What are the four Renaissance Ideas?

Answer 1

Secularism
Humanism
Individualism
Scepticism

Question 2

What does Secularism mean?

Answer 2

That people were less interested in religon and started to want worldly pleasures and material things.
eg Non God.

Question 3

What does Humanism mean?

Answer 3

People started looking up to people rather than God.

eg Justin Bieber.

Question 4

What does Individualism mean?

Answer 4

People expressed their talents so people could look up to them.
eg Britains got talent.

Question 5

What does Scepticism mean?

Answer 5

Encouraging curiosity, objectivity and questioning of authority.
eg Curiosity.

Question 6

Name five Middle Eastern and Asian scholoars achievements.

Answer 6

1. Invited the arabic numerals.
2. Invented the decimal system and theory of evolution.
3. Discovered gravity and the relationship between weight, speed and distance.
4. Measured the speed of light.
5. Worked out the circumference of the Earth within an accuracy of 1%.