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The RenaissanceThe RenaissanceThe RenaissanceThe Renaissance 1.The term Renaissance is from

what language and means what?

French and means “rebirth”

2.During the Middle Ages, what

could few ordinary people do?

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Read

3.What did people discover in the

Renaissance?

The marvels of old Greek and Latin

classic books

4.With the “renewal of the human

spirit” came what other “renewal”?

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A renewal of curiosity and

creativity

5. “New energy” seemed available

for what?

Creating beautiful things and

thinking new, even daring thoughts.

6.Where and when did the

Renaissance begin and how long

did it last there?

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Italy, fourteenth century – sixteenth

century

7.What helped make Italy the

starting place of the Renaissance?

The considerable wealth generated

from banking and trade with the East

8.Who are the “extraordinary

people” the textbook mentions

“who flourished in this period” and

what were they famous for?

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Leonardo da Vinci and

Michelangelo – artistsChristopher Columbus – explorer

Galileo – scientist

9.Why was the Church “very rich

and powerful” in those days?

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At the time almost everyone in

Europe and Britain were Catholic 10.Because of the church’s power

and wealth, what did many of the

popes become for artists, architects,

and scholars?

Patrons

Pope Julius II

11.What did Pope Julius II

commission Michelangelo to

create?

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Paintings of gigantic biblical

scenes on the ceiling of the Sistine

Chapel

Man Paints Sistine Chapel on Living

Room Ceiling

12. What do Michelangelo’s

“bright, heroic figures” show?

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Individual human beings who are

noble and capable of perfection13.“As well” as Michelangelo,

what did “other Renaissance

painters and writers” express?

“optimistic view of humanity”

14.What intellectual movement

were the new writers and artists a

part of and what brought it about?

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Humanism, refreshed by the

classics

15.What questions did the

humanists seek new answers to in

the old Latin and Greek classics?

What is a human being; what is a

good life; How do I lead a good life

16. What did Renaissance

humanists find “no essential

conflicts between”?

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Teachings of the Church and

ancient Roman moralists

17.What was their aim regarding

the classics and Christianity?

To use the classics to strengthen

not discredit Christianity18.What was the humanists’ “first

task” and where did they search?

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To recover accurate copies of ancient

writings , Italian monasteries

19.What was their “next task” and

what did it cause them to become?

To share findings; teachers20.What did the teachers learn from

the Greek writer Plutarch?

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The aim of life is to attain virtue and that

is the only source of true happiness, not

success or money or fame

Jupiter, Mercury and Virtue

Dossi

21.What is Johannes Gutenberg

famous for?

The invention of printing with

movable type

22. What was the “first complete

book” he printed and when?

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An immense Latin Bible, around

1455

23.“By 1500,” what “were

available throughout western

Europe?”

Relatively inexpensive books

24.What regarding printing

happened in 1476 and how was

William Caxton involved?

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It reached England; Caxton set up a press in

Westminster and issued about 100 different

titles25. Who is perhaps the “best

known of all the Renaissance

humanists”?

Desiderus Erasmus (1466?-1536)

26. Even though he was born in the

Netherlands, why is it said that “he

belonged to all of Europe”?

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He loved to travel and visited many

countries in Europe and England

Rotterdam,

Netherlands

27.How could he “address his

many writings to all the educated

people of Western Europe”?

He wrote in Latin

28.What important person did he

become friends with in England?

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Thomas More, a young lawyer

29.Besides having much in

common, what were they both

“dedicated” to?

The Church 30. What were they “impatient”

with?

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Church’s corrupt practices at the

time

31.What is the title of More’s

famous “treatise on human

society”?

Utopia

32. Utopia “has given us a useful

adjective for describing what”?

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Impractical social schemes33.What “one feature was common

to all Reformers” during the

Reformation?

They rejected authority of the pope

and the Italian churchmen

Cranmer, Luther, Tyndale, Calvin

34.In England, by the 1530s, what

“could no longer be avoided”?

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An open break with the Roman

Catholic Church

35.What lead the English people

resenting “the financial burdens

imposed on them” by the Vatican?

Strong feelings of patriotism and

national identity

36.What is the German monk

Martin Luther (1483-1546) famous

for? (explain fully)

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Founding a new kind of Christianity that

was not based on what the pope said but on

personal understanding of the Bible37.Reforms like Luther’s were

“right at home in England” where

humanists were doing what?

Ridiculing old superstitions and the

ignorance and idleness of monks

and the loose living and personal

wealth of priests and bishops.38.Describe the events that lead to

England’s break from the pope and

the Catholic Church.