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Renaissance Mid-unit Quiz
Renaissance Mid-unit Quiz
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What did humanists believe?
Can achieve great things through learning should be skilled in many
They should develop not just their minds but also their bodies and spirits
Important for a person to have an open, curious, and questioning mind.
People can be successful through their own talents and efforts.
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What were two important results of The Crusades?
The Middle East and Europe were no longer communicating, and new goods.
Contact with Muslim civilization and trade.
There were no important results.
Wealth and new jobs.
3
The silk road was a trail that followed up river valleys, over mountains and across deserts.
True
False
4
What areas did the Silk Road connect?
None of the above.
China, Arabia and Europe
India, Africa and Egypt
All of the above
5
What was shared and discovered between different groups/ cultures on the Silk Road?
diseases and cures for them.
Only goods and services.
Shared knowledge, inventions, beliefs, artistic styles, language, customs
Only silks and spices.
6
How did geography and climate help City-States become powerful?
Trade and travel were not interrupted by winter weather.
Being close to rivers allowed easier transportation for goods.
Long growing periods let crops flourish for trade.
Being close to Africa and Eastern Mediterranean to access luxury goods.
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What lead to the success of City-States?
Geography and climate
None of the above.
All of the above.
Leadership and social organization.
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What type of people were Humanists in the Renaissance?
Architects, artists and musicians
Teachers writers and public officials.
All of the above.
Scholars, philosophers, and Scientists
9
What was it like living in the towns during the Middle Ages?
Crowded, dirty, rat-infested, but offered freedom and opportunity
There were no towns in the Middle Ages.
Clean, beautiful, and organized towns with multiple jobs waiting.
Horrible, they were disease ridden, and full of poor starving people.
10
Civic humanists beliefs: To be citizens meant educating yourself about history and politics to improve society.
True
False
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How did society change near the end of the Middle Ages after the collapse of the feudalism hierarchy?
Another revolt happened, which caused a war.
Many people were without homes and jobs.
It was easier to gain wealth and more people started to work in trades.
People became more involved with the church and looking for knowledge.
12
The Black Death killed millions and caused severe labor shortages and lead to the feudal society collapse
True
False
13
What is a City-State?
It ranked how well cities were doing in the Renaissance.
City politically independent from area around it. *make there own decisions
City politically dependent on the area around it. * listens to someone else
Any city in the Middle East during the Renaissance.
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How did City-States get rich and powerful?
Merchants buying goods in one place and then selling them for more money.
Merchants, shopkeepers and craftspeople growing the economy and jobs.
International trade access.
Bankers built banking houses and brought their wealth.
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Which one explains a peasants life in the Middle Ages
They worked to protect the crown and were payed generously.
They owned large manors and divided their land out to Knights.
They were uneducated and would have to do any work the lord ordered.
They worked on manors for little to no pay, would work from sunrise to set.
16
What two Italian City-States
fought for control of sea routes in the Mediterranean?
Genoa and Venice
Florence and Milan
Rome and Naples
Metz and Vienna
17
Chinese, Turks, Mongols, Middle Eastern Christians, Western Europeans and Persians all lived & traveled along the road.
False
True
18
Guilds controlled the prices of goods, set quality standards and decided who could work in a trade.
False
True
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What is Feudalism?
A belief system in the Middle Ages
A fight between people in the Middle Ages
A social hierarchy (people ranked by power)
A common meal in the Middle Ages
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What was the cause of the Peasants Revolt after the Hundred Years War?
Because of the high rents and tax they had to pay from the war.
Because the Peasants were abandoned during the war.
Because many peasants died in the war.
The peasants did not revolt.
21
What types of luxury goods were brought from the East during The Crusades?
None of the above.
Precious jewels, rugs silk, satin, and spices.
Luxury furs, money, silks, robes, and cotton.
Metals, tools, jewels, transportation, and robes.
22
What were The Crusades?
Many religious wars between Christian and Muslim forces
The route people took to trade goods.
Many political wars between Europe and the Middle East.
A serious disease suffered by the people in Europe.
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What did the term renaissance mean?
Rebirth of classical ideas, knowledge, literature and art.
A new social hierarchy.
Period in time with no new ideas or advances.
Nothing it was just a new period of time.
