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What did Dante Alighieri write?
The Divine Comedy
The Odyssey
Canterbury Tales
The Aenid
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What did doctors begin to do?
They began dissecting cadavers to learn about human anatomy.
They began examining animals to learn about human anatomy.
They did nothing new.
They began bloodletting
3
What did Renaissance artist experiment with?
Shading
New types of paint
Color
Shading and color
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What was Copernicus's theory?
The solar system revolved around the earth.
The solar system revolved around the sun.
That gravity existed.
That cells existed.
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What did authors begin to do in their writings?
They did nothing different.
They began to write more poetry.
They began to write in the vernacular
They wrote more prose.
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What did Renaissance art show?
More feeling
More shadowing
More color
More detail and feeling.
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What culture aided medical knowledge in Europe?
China
Middle East
India
Russia
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How did the Church react to scientists?
The Church encouraged scientists
The Church did nothing.
The Church provided resources for scientists.
The Church often persecuted scientists.
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Who were the Medici?
A Spanish merchant family.
An Italian merchant family in Florence.
Wealthy Italian family who controlled Florence for manyyears
An Italian merchant family in Venice
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Why were maps more widely available?
Maps were not widely available
The printing press
The Church paid for more maps to be made
Cartographers made more maps
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What did William Harvey discover?
The brain has neuron
That bone marrow produced blood.
The heart pumps blood through the body.
The spine produced fluids
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Why were maps important?
They were not important
They helped with navigation
They helped the Church expand
They helped kings win battles.
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What is Florence?
An Italian city located in the area known as Tuscany
A wealthy Spanish city located on the coast
A wealthy Portuguese city with famous artists.
An Italian city in Italy built on 118 islets with ina lagoon
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Who were the Moors?
Muslims who invaded and occupied India.
Muslims of BerberandArab descent who invaded &occupied Spain
Muslim merchants who travelled the world.
Muslims who lived peacefully in Spain
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What is humanism?
Renaissance idea thatfocused onthe individual and intellect.
A Renaissance idea that focused solely on the Church.
Buddhist idea that focused on learning about Nirvana.
Confucian idea that focused on respecting parents
16
Which two people were engineers?
Filippo Brunelleschi
Leonardo da Vinci
Donatello
Raphael
17
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
18
Who invented the printing press in the mid 15th century?
Johannes Gutenberg
Leonardo d Vinci
Thomas Edison
Nichola Tesla
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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 was the first book printed?
The Torah
The Koran
The Bible
The Sunnah
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What did William Shakespeare write?
Plays
Poems
Plays and poems
Novels
22
What did Galileo do?
He improved the telescope and discovered new parts of space.
He discovered electricity.
He invented the lightbulb.
He invented the telephone.
23
What was an advantage of the printing press?
It allowed the Church to control who received books.
It allowed books to be printed quickly and cheaply.
It allowed nobles to control who received books
It allowed the upper class to get Bibles more easily.
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What did Marco Polo do?
He worked in Kublai Khan's court
He traveled the Silk Road with his father
He returned to Venice in 1295
He collaborated to write the book The Travels of Marco Polo
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What does Renaissance mean?
Repetition
Reintergration
Rebirth
Regeneration
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Which of these inventions were Renaissance inventions
mobile seige bride
elevator
revolving crane
paddleboat
