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Study Guide | Renaissance Assessment – Learning Targets 4-7, 10-12
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Learning Target 4 | I can describe how humanism led to a revival of classical learning and fostered a new interest in the arts.
Learning Target 5 | I can analyze the growth and effects of new ways of disseminating information, ability to manufacture paper,
translation of the Bible into the vernacular, and printing.
Learning Target 6 | I can outline the advances made in literature, the arts, science, mathematics, cartography, engineering, and
the understanding of human anatomy and astronomy.
Learning Target 7 | I can gather relevant information from multiple sources about Henry V, Hundreds Year War, and Joan of Arc.
Learning Target 10 | I can explain the heightened influence of the Catholic Church, the growth of literacy, the spread of printed
books, the explosion of knowledge and the Church’s reaction to these developments.
Learning Target 11 | I can list and explain the significance of the causes for the internal turmoil within and eventual weakening of
the Catholic Church.
Learning Target 12 | I can outline the reasons for the growing discontent with the Catholic Church.
1.) What is humanism? What is its goal?
2.) How did the belief in humanism inspire a new interest in the arts in Europe?
3.) Explain how the printing press helped information spread quickly throughout Europe.
4.) How did the translation of the Bible in the vernacular lead to the spread of Christianity?
5.) Explain advancements made in the following areas during the Renaissance:
a. Literature
e. Cartography
b. The arts
f.
Engineering
c.
g.
Astronomy
Science
d. Mathematics
h. Human anatomy
6.) What were the three main causes of the Hundred Years’ War?
7.) How did Joan of Arc and Henry V influence events in the Hundred Years’ War?
8.) Explain the Catholic Church’s influence in the daily lives of people in Europe. How did the Catholic Church respond to ideas
such as the printing press, the printing of the Bible in different languages, and the improvement of literacy in Europe?
9.) What caused the Great Schism? How did this weaken the Catholic church?
10.)Of what two financial practices within the Catholic church did many people disapprove?
11.)Why did people believe that paying indulgences meant that people were paying their way into heaven?