The Renaissance

Question 1

Where in Italy did the Renaissance begin?

Answer 1

Florence

Question 2

When did the Renaissance begin?

Answer 2

Late 15th century

Question 3

When did the Renaissance last till?

Answer 3

18th century

Question 4

What challenged the power of the Catholic Church?

Answer 4

The Reformation

Question 5

What does ‘Renaissance’ literally mean?

Answer 5

Rebirth

Question 6

What were challenged?

Answer 6

Old ideas

Question 7

Why did the theories proposed by Hippocrates, Galen and Avicenna become popular again?

Answer 7

Wealthy businessmen paid scholars to investigate, restore and fix the bad translations of the Ancient Greeks and Romans that had been published in the Middle Ages

Question 8

Why did people search for the most accurate, original versions of old texts and experiment with new ideas?

Answer 8

The Renaissance inspired them and made them critical of the many versions of old texts

Question 9

What did educated people not want to accept?

Answer 9

What the church had said

Question 10

What things did people want to be educated in to improve quality of life?

Answer 10

Art, music, science and literature

Question 11

What was humanism?

Answer 11

An increased focus on the importance of human factors rather than supernatural

Question 12

What led to some people questioning the church?

Answer 12

A focus on direct observation and experiments to explain things rather than simply blaming the supernatural

Question 13

Why did surgeons not know much about the cures for diseases? What did this mean treatments were initially like?

Answer 13

They still knew little about the causes of diseases

Treatments initially like those in medieval times

Question 14

Why were books very rare and expensive before the Renaissance?

Answer 14

They were handwritten

Question 15

What did people begin to see the importance of?

Answer 15

Dissection and anatomy

Question 16

What were the biggest killers?

Answer 16

Fever, consumption, teeth, gripping in the guts and convulsions

Question 17

Who was a key illustrator of the anatomy?

Answer 17

Leonardo da Vinci

Question 18

What did Leonardo da Vinci design?

Answer 18

An automaton that could sit up, walk and turn its head

Question 19

What was Leonardo da Vinci the first to suggest about human anatomy?

Answer 19

Human being are only complex machines and our insides are like cogs and pistons made of muscle and flesh

Question 20

What allowed ideas to spread a lot faster across Renaissance Europe?

Answer 20

The printing press

Question 21

Why did the printing press spread ideas quicker?

Answer 21

They could print books quickly

Question 22

Who built the printing press?

Answer 22

Johannes Gutenberg

Question 23

When did Johannes Gutenberg start to build the printing press?

Answer 23

1436

Question 24

In 1480, how many printers were there in Europe?

Answer 24

110

Question 25

By 1600, how many cities had printing presses?

Answer 25

151

Question 26

By 1600, how many book copies had been made by Western Europe printing presses?

Answer 26

20 million

Question 27

What did publishing lots of copies of a theory allow people to do?

Answer 27

Understand it and work out whether it is right or wrong

Question 28

Who could use books for reference more often?

Answer 28

Medical students

Question 29

Who was the first person to introduce a printing press into England?

Answer 29

William Caxton

Question 30

When did William Caxton introduce the printing press to England?

Answer 30

1476

Question 31

Who was the first English retailer of printed books?

Answer 31

William Caxton

Question 32

Why did people begin to see the importance of dissection and anatomy?

Answer 32

Rediscovery of Galen, Hippocrates and Avicenna