Download Name: ______ Period: ______ The Renaissance Connection

Name: __________________________
Period: __________________________
The Renaissance Connection
WebQuest Assignment
Directions:
Follow the link below to navigate to the Renaissance Connection website. Answer the questions that follow.
Mrs. Evans’ Website  ERA 6 – Interaction & Change  ERA 6 Useful Links  ‘The Renaissance Connection WebQuest’.
P a r t I : I n t r o d u c t i o n – Watch the introduction short video and fill -in the blanks
1. What parts of today’s society can we thank the Renaissance for? ___________________________________,
________________________________, ___________________________________, etc.
2. The Renaissance brought out the radical idea of…people and the world around us being as important as _______________.
3. Click Continue.
4. Click Art Explorer.
Part II: Art Explorer:
A. Answer the Multiple-Choice Question. Click continue.
B. Use the hands at the bottom of the page to navigate to the left and the right.
C. Quest for Knowledge (top timeline):
5. Define ‘Humanism’ (Year 1400) - _______________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________________________.
6. The posting of Luther’s Thesis (1517) in Wittenberg, Germany led to a revolution within the Catholic Church
known as the _____________________________ ____________________________.
7. Galileo proves (1611) that the Earth is not the center of the Universe. How did the Catholic Church respond to
Galileo’s findings? ____________________________________________________________________________
D. Arts & Architecture (2nd timeline):
8. Albrecht Durer (1511) is regarded as the greatest German ______________________ ____________________.
9. William Shakespeare (1605) is considered one of the greatest _______________________________ of all time.
E. Patron’s Lifestyle (3rd timeline):
10. The Medici Family (1397) opens the 1st _____________ in __________________, Italy. How did the opening of
this bank become a cause for the Renaissance? ____________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________________________.
11. How did patrons, such as Lorenzo d’Medici (1425) change the lives of inspiring artists of the Renaissance?
___________________________________________________________________________________________.
F. Everyday Life (4th timeline):
12. What new aspects of society surfaced due to the emergence of the middle class (1540ish)?
a. Love of famil y
b. ____________________________________
c. ____________________________________
G. Trade & Exploration (5th timeline):
13. How did Venice, Italy continue to be a leader in trade and banking after the Black Death (1425 – 1450)?
___________________________________________________________________________________________.
14. Why do you think Christopher Columbus’ voyage to the Americas (1492) made Spain a new world power?
____________________________________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________________________.
15. Vasco da Gama (1498) became the 1st European to discover a sea-route to India. He returned to Portugal with
_________________, __________________, and ______________ worth 60 times the price of the voyage!
16. Ferdinand Magellan (1519) is the 1st explorer to circumnavigate the world. Define ‘circumnavigation’.
___________________________________________________________________________________________.
17. After the discovery of the Americas, the slave trade (1619) begins. Where did these slaves come from?
_________________. What U.S. state was the first to use slave labor? ___________________________________
H. Science & Technology (bottom timeline):
18. Johannes Gutenberg perfects the printing press (1440) which uses movable type to print papers. What was the 1st
book published in Gutenberg’s printing press? _________ ______________
19. Leonardo da Vinci (1519) dies in Ambroise, Italy. He is known as a ‘_______________________ ________’,
because of his many talents in painting, architecture, engineering, etc.
20. Algebra (1559) is first developed by the _____________________ during the ________________ __________
and reaches ______________________ during the ___________________________.