RENAISSANCE EXCURSION
Name ______________________
1. The word Renaissance means ____________________________________________
2. Scholars were called. ____________________________________________________
3. The renaissance was a period of discovery in four areas, name them ______________
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4. The fuller appreciation of the writings, arts, and attitudes of the ______________and
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5. Name Dante's work that was the "glimmer of the dawn" of the Renaissance.
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6. Name the man who was the real initiator in the field of literature and learning.
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7. He basically wrote his sonnets in what language? _____________________________
8. Both Petrarch and Dante spent most of their lives in enforced or voluntary __________________________.
9. Petarch's sonnets were addressed to a lady of Avignon, France named _____________________
10. She died in 1348 of _______________________________________
11. Two men have been influenced by Petrarch, name them _______________________
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12. Name the Father of Italian prose. _______________________________________
13. Prior to this awakening of the of the human intellect was a great development of the
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14. The full flowering of Renaissance art came in the late _____________& early
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15. Individualism because a cloak for which two unclassical items. __________________
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16. Rulers often adopted the view that the end justified the means, and the end was likely to be selfish exercise of _________________________.
17. These views are called ___________________________
18. Creative spirit found expression through three of the greatest inventions of all time-name them. _________________________________________________________
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19. The people of the Middle Ages were overwhelmingly _______________________
20. If a site combined the advantages of protection and of trade, a _____________
or a __________________was likely to be established there, and a ____________
would grow up.
21. Merchants of a particular town usually formed an association or ______________.
22. List the main purposes for forming guilds: _______________________________
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23. For defense, towns were surrounded by ________________________________
24. Name two distinctive features of the age of the Renaissance: _________________
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25. During this period, goods were carried mostly in what three ways? ____________
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26. The buying and selling of coins for a profit is called ________________________.
27. Name four immediate results that the discoveries of the New World brought about.
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