Renaissance

Question 1

European explorer who traveled through Asia in 1200

Answer 1

Marco Polo

Question 2

a fee that borrowers pay for the use of someone else’s money

Answer 2

Interest

Question 3

wealthy banker who turned Florence into a center of arts, culture, and education

Answer 3

Cosimo de’ Medici

Question 4

period following the Middle Ages, characterized by renewed interest in Greek and Roman cultures and an emphasis on people as individuals

Answer 4

Renaissance

Question 5

emphasis on human value and achievement

Answer 5

Humanism

Question 6

Italian poet who wrote “The Divine Comedy”

Answer 6

Dante Alighieri

Question 7

political writer who wrote “The Prince”

Answer 7

Niccolo Machiavelli

Question 8

Renaissance poet and scholar who helped change education

Answer 8

Petrarch

Question 9

technique in art to represent a three-dimensional scene on a flat space so it looks real

Answer 9

perspective

Question 10

master artist who painted the ceiling of the Vatican’s Sistine Chapel

Answer 10

Michelangelo

Question 11

master inventor, engineer, and artist who painted the “Mona Lisa”

Answer 11

Leonardo da Vinci

Question 12

German inventor with the printing press with movable type

Answer 12

Johann Gutenberg

Question 13

combination of humanism and Christianity

Answer 13

Christian Humanism

Question 14

German painter who is also known for his block printing

Answer 14

Albrecht Duerer

Question 15

Spanish writer of “Don Quixote” a novel that mocked medieval habits and customs

Answer 15

Miguel de Cervantes

Question 16

English dramatist and poet inspired by the Renaissance

Answer 16

William Shakespeare