renaissance and enlightenment

Question 1

What are Ideas and Innovations?

Answer 1

New ideas and creations or new way of doing things

Question 2

What is the Renaissance?

Answer 2

Time period in Europe means rebirth based around scientific and artistic innovations.

Question 3

What is Humanism?

Answer 3

An idea during the renaissance, meaning the focus on humans and what is important in human experience compared to animals. Also means the science of the human body and what makes us work.

Question 4

What is Perspective?

Answer 4

An artistic term. It’s a very specific artistic technique to make it realistic.

Question 5

What is Classicism?

Answer 5

During the renaissance this is the idea of reassuring the art and architecture from ancient Greece and ancient Rome.

Question 6

Who is Nicolaus Copernicus?

Answer 6

He was the astronomer guy who had the theory that the earth moves around the sun instead of the sun moving around us.

Question 7

Who is Leonardo Da Vinci?

Answer 7

Da Vinci is a famous artist, He also focused on the study of human anatomy, religion, science, and mathematics. He did everything.

Question 8

Who is the Renaissance Man?

Answer 8

The Renaissance man is Leonardo Da Vinci, this means someone educated who is highly skilled and talented in many different things.

Question 9

What is the Enlightenment?

Answer 9

Time period also called the age of reason, focused on scientific discoveries, and using the mind to find answers to problems.

Question 10

What is Empiricism?

Answer 10

A scientific technique of only using evidence using to prove your hypothesis.

Question 11

What is Vaccination?

Answer 11

A way of getting rid of disease and a method to get rid of it. Using vaccination to help us with immunity.

Question 12

Who is Edward Jenner?

Answer 12

He invented vaccination.

Question 13

Who is Thomas Hobbes?

Answer 13

He supported absolutism, meaning he supported having one clear leader like a queen and king.

Question 14

Who is John Locke?

Answer 14

he believed that people had natural right and every human had the right to be free and have the right to have their own stuff all he cared about was that the government must protect these human rights.

Question 15

Who is Jean-Jacques Rousseau?

Answer 15

he believed that the government and culture are what make humans bad or evil, he believes that the government is always bad.

Question 16

Who is Petarach?

Answer 16

An Italian poet who created the sonnet?

Question 17

What is The leviathan?

Answer 17

The novel by Thomas Hobbes, explains the idea of absolutism.

Question 18

What is Cogito, ergo sum?

Answer 18

It is Latin which means “I think, therefore I am”?

Question 19

Who is David Hume?

Answer 19

A British philosopher, believed that people believe what is right and wrong based on what they feel.

Question 20

Who is Rene Descartes?

Answer 20

Created cogito, ergo sum. He did a thought experiment that is ‘if i think, that means i am real’. If we are in a video game, or a dream, as long as we can think, then we are real.

Question 21

What is The Printing Press?

Answer 21

The machine that lets people make books faster.

Question 22

Who is Niccolo Machiavelli?

Answer 22

Italian philosopher. He wrote a book called prince. In his book, he said a good leader is a good person, does good.

Question 23

Who is Michelangelo?

Answer 23

Italian painter and sculpture.

Question 24

What is Encyclopedias?

Answer 24

A series of books that had a little bit of information that has ideas from a lot of topics.

Question 25

What is Absolutism?

Answer 25

Thomas Hobbes created the idea of wanting to have a ruler, like a king or queen, that there should only be one leader.

Question 26

What is Electricity?

Answer 26

Being able to harness electrical power. For example lightning, or power. It’s a power source that people rely on.

Question 27

Who is William Shakespeare?

Answer 27

An English poet, created the language of shakespeare.

Question 28

Who is Galileo Galilei?

Answer 28

He invented a telescope to let humans see the moon very clearly, this happened for the first time.

Question 29

Who is Kant?

Answer 29

German philosopher who created the golden rule. ‘Treat people the way you want to be treated’.

Question 30

12 Topics of the Renaissance?

Answer 30

Humanism, Perspective, Classicism, Nicolaus Copernicus, Leonardo Da Vinci, Renaissance Man, Petarach, Niccolo Machiavelli, Michelangelo, The Printing Press, William Shakespeare and Galileo Galilei.

Question 31

Topics of the enlightenment?

Answer 31

Empiricism, Vaccination, Edward Jenner, Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Leviathan, David Hume, Rene Descartes, Cogito, ergo sum, Encyclopedias, Absolutism, Electricity and Kant.

Question 32

What are 3 important creations during The Renaissance list and their value?

Answer 32

1- the Mona Lisa: a painting done by Leonardo da Vinci, that looks like she has many expressions. The mona lisa doesn’t affect my life or my country but it does affect other countries and artists that got influenced about the type of art.
2 the telescope : The telescope made us be able to see things from far away this helped us discover stuff from the sky and much more
3- the printing press : The printing press made people create new things

Question 33

What are 3 important creations during the Enlightenment list and their value?

Answer 33

Vaccines: Edward Jenner invented vaccines to help get rid of diseases. It all started from smallpox. They help our society today so that we are immune to most diseases and sicknesses.
Encyclopedia: a book with everything inside of it. This helps us because now we have different websites like Wikipedia to help us understand about any topic in the world.
Electricity: electricity is important because if we didn’t discover what it was then we wouldn’t know what to do if we ran out of electricity.