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What is Venice?
An Italian city in Italy built on 118 islets with ina lagoon
A famous German city during the Renaissance
A wealthy French city located along the coast
An Italian city located in the area known as Tuscany
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What did doctors begin to do?
They began dissecting cadavers to learn about human anatomy.
They did nothing new.
They began bloodletting
They began examining animals to learn about human anatomy.
3
Which of these inventions were Renaissance inventions
elevator
revolving crane
paddleboat
mobile seige bride
4
Which two people were engineers?
Leonardo da Vinci
Donatello
Raphael
Filippo Brunelleschi
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Why were maps important?
They were not important
They helped with navigation
They helped kings win battles.
They helped the Church expand
6
What was an advantage of the printing press?
It allowed the upper class to get Bibles more easily.
It allowed books to be printed quickly and cheaply.
It allowed the Church to control who received books.
It allowed nobles to control who received books
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What did William Harvey discover?
The heart pumps blood through the body.
The brain has neuron
The spine produced fluids
That bone marrow produced blood.
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What did Galileo do?
He improved the telescope and discovered new parts of space.
He invented the lightbulb.
He invented the telephone.
He discovered electricity.
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What did authors begin to do in their writings?
They began to write more poetry.
They did nothing different.
They wrote more prose.
They began to write in the vernacular
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What is vernacular?
A secret code that was used during the Renaissance.
The dialect spoken by ordinary people in a particular region
The language spoken in Norway
The language that Amazonian spoke
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What did Marco Polo do?
He collaborated to write the book The Travels of Marco Polo
He returned to Venice in 1295
He worked in Kublai Khan's court
He traveled the Silk Road with his father
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Who invented the printing press in the mid 15th century?
Thomas Edison
Leonardo d Vinci
Johannes Gutenberg
Nichola Tesla
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How did the Church react to scientists?
The Church often persecuted scientists.
The Church did nothing.
The Church provided resources for scientists.
The Church encouraged scientists
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What did Renaissance artist experiment with?
Color
Shading
Shading and color
New types of paint
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What does Renaissance mean?
Reintergration
Regeneration
Rebirth
Repetition
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What did Renaissance art show?
More feeling
More shadowing
More color
More detail and feeling.
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What did William Shakespeare write?
Novels
Poems
Plays and poems
Plays
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What did Dante Alighieri write?
The Odyssey
The Divine Comedy
Canterbury Tales
The Aenid
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Why were maps more widely available?
Cartographers made more maps
The printing press
The Church paid for more maps to be made
Maps were not widely available
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What is humanism?
Renaissance idea thatfocused onthe individual and intellect.
Buddhist idea that focused on learning about Nirvana.
A Renaissance idea that focused solely on the Church.
Confucian idea that focused on respecting parents
21
Who were the Medici?
A Spanish merchant family.
Wealthy Italian family who controlled Florence for manyyears
An Italian merchant family in Florence.
An Italian merchant family in Venice
22
What culture aided medical knowledge in Europe?
Russia
India
China
Middle East
23
What was Copernicus's theory?
That gravity existed.
The solar system revolved around the sun.
The solar system revolved around the earth.
That cells existed.
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Who were the Moors?
Muslim merchants who travelled the world.
Muslims of BerberandArab descent who invaded &occupied Spain
Muslims who invaded and occupied India.
Muslims who lived peacefully in Spain
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What was the first book printed?
The Bible
The Sunnah
The Torah
The Koran
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What is Florence?
A wealthy Spanish city located on the coast
A wealthy Portuguese city with famous artists.
An Italian city located in the area known as Tuscany
An Italian city in Italy built on 118 islets with ina lagoon
