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Grade 8 Social: Chapter 1-3 Review
Grade 8 Social: Chapter 1-3 Review
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1
What was at the centre of the humanist worldview?
The Individual/Humanity
Art
God
The Greek and Roman Gods
2
What great
Florentine
family were civic humanists?
The Sforza Family
The Borgia Family
The Aragon Family
The Medici Family
3
What is Feudalism?
What is Feudalism?
A political situation of violence, feuds, and small uproars.
A socio-economic system of equity and individual ownership.
A social and economic system of hierarchy, ruled by a King
4
How did Europe's Roman Catholic Church contribute to the spread of these new Renaissance ideas?
hey didn't do this, because they didn't want change.
They did this through sponsorship of scholars.
They didn't do this, because funds ran low after the wars.
They did this through churches and sermons
5
Why is the Renaissance so important in the history of Europe and the Western world?
Because it's in the textbook.
ecause it helped to determine how we think today
because many important people contributed to it.
it's not very important.
6
The Renaissance spread through Western Europe, because
Explorers started to sail to the Americas.
Silk Road trade slowed while the Aztec society blossomed.
Papal orders supported science and the search for knowledge.
Wars ended, the feudal system declined, and trade picked up.
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Cosimo de Medici
Was a friend of Marco Polo
Ruled over Venice
Married Catherine de Medici
Supported the arts in Florence
8
This building was most likely built in...
The Renaissance
The Middle Ages
Ancient Egypt
9
True or False: There was
more
social mobility in the Renaissance than the Middle Ages.
False
True
10
The Silk Road
was a road made of silk
was a series of trade routes to the East
A path used during the Crusades
was a shipping route to the West
11
What country did the Renaissance start in?
Italy
France
Portugal
Germany
12
Which City State was the main trading center for the East?
Pisa
Florence
Venice
Genoa
13
What city-state was considered the cultural capital of the Renaissance?
Venice
Rome
Genoa
Florence
14
What is
one of the reasons
the Renaissance started in Italy?
The feudal system was weaker in Italy
The Pope lives in Italy
Both
They had a strong monarch
15
During the 15th century, Renaissance artists began to paint
Cartoons
Non-religious subjects.
Realistic images of humans
Classical Greek and Roman myths
16
What city-state was the famous explorer Christopher Columbus from?
Venice
Genoa
Florence
Milan
17
Early Humanist scholars of Renaissance Europe loved to read
The Da Vinci Code
Islamic philosophers
Greek and Roman literature
Books about humans.
18
During the Renaissance, the Catholic Church...
had the same amount of power it did in Medieval Europe
Became more powerful than ever
Was still powerful but their influence slightly decreased
was abolished
19
How did humanist scholars influence the rest of society?
They didn't. Their work was hardly read or noticed.
They bribed people to gain followers
They became the rulers of the italian city states
They were tutors, writers and opened schools
20
What is a
geographical
reason the Italian city-states were successful?
The feudal system was weaker in Italy
They were well positioned between Europe & the Mediterranean
They were independent and not ruled under one monarch
They had strong and stable leaders
21
What city-state was most famous for its military?
Florence
Venice
Milan
Rome
22
How did Renaissance artists make money?
They sold their art at markets
It was funded by a patron
They set up their own art galleries and had exhibitions
They sold it to merchants in exchange for foreign goods
23
True or False: This painting is from the
Middle Ages
because it celebrates the human body?
True
False
24
What is a city-state?
a self-governed city with countryside included
place where it does not classify as a city nor state
a really famous book
a city governed by a state
25
What is civic humanism?
Allowing every man in Italy to vote
The idea that everyone should get paid the same wage
allowing every citizen to own land
the civilian duty of giving back to the society you live in
26
The term "Renaissance" means...
re-birth
invent
classical world
the arts
27
True or False:
Middle Ages
education stressed the development of the "whole-child"?
True
False
28
What two ancient cultures were the Humanists inspired by?
Greece and the Ottoman Empire
Rome and Egypt
Greece and Rome
Egypt and the Ottoman Empire
