Download Nystrom Atlas Assignment Video: Exploring the Renaissance – 20:18

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Nystrom Atlas Assignment
Directions: Use pages 90 to 93 in the Nystrom Atlas to answer the questions below.
1. What transformed Western Europe?
2. What did Renaissance scholars rediscover?
3. What did these great works of the past inspire?
4. What did the Medici family control?
5. How did improvements to the printing press help the Renaissance spread?
6. What was the cultural and economic center of the Renaissance?
7. What is the most famous portrait of the era?
Look at the map The Renaissance Spreads Across Europe and answer the following questions:
8. Describe the flow of Renaissance ideas (look at the arrows and describe where they went to).
9. List four painters:
10. List three writers:
Video: Exploring the Renaissance – 20:18
Directions: Use your video notes and the script of the video to completely answer the following questions.
1. When did the Renaissance begin in Italy?
2. What does the word Renaissance mean?
3. The Renaissance rediscovered some wonderful ideas that had been lost for nearly how many years?
4. What did the Romans bring to wherever they conquered?
5. When did the Western Roman Empire finally disintegrate?
6. The Middle Ages is the name for the period of European history between what two periods?
7. What was the first 500 years of the Middle Ages called?
8. During the Middle Ages, nearly everyone believed that life on earth was a doorway leading to what?
9. How did the Bishops live?
10. What did the Church sell? Why?
11. Who did the leaders of the Renaissance lose their respect for?
12. What were the leaders of the Renaissance called?
13. How did figures in medieval art appear?
14. How did the great Renaissance artists paint human beings?
15. Renaissance artists discovered how to create the illusion of three dimensions on the flat surface of a
painting by using what?
16. Burton Agnes Hall was a modern building that, unlike the original medieval house, had no what?
17. Who was considered to be the greatest writer in the English language?
18. Using the telescope, what was Galileo able to prove?
19. Why were books very rare and expensive up until the mid 1400s?
20. What happened as a result of the large scale adoption of the inexpensive printing methods after 1500?
21. As a result of the burst of explorations, what happened to many of the native cultures of the Americas?
22. In 1517, what happened in response to corruption within the Catholic Church?
23. What did the Reformation lead to?
24. What was the most significant result of the Reformation?