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Renaissance: Chapter 2 booklet
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1. When and where did the Renaissance ideas spread to from Italy?
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2. What was a significant effect about the spread of the ideas?
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3. Why was feudalism much more entrenched in the lands beyond Italy?
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4. What problems existed between the Monarchs and Nobles?
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5. What other issues prevented the spread of the Renaissance ideas?
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6. What allowed Renaissance ideas to spread more quickly?
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7. What were the effects of the war France and Germany waged on the Italian city-states?
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8. Why was the printing press so instrumental in the change of people’s worldview?
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9. What issues did some people have with printed books?
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10. What is humanism?
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11. How did Renaissance humanism challenge the worldview of the Middle Ages?
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12. How did scholars and philosopher spread the ideas of humanism?
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13. Describe how scholars helped to shape the Renaissance worldview.
Name of scholar
Petrach
Erasmums
Guillaume Budé
Contribution
Michel de
Montaigne
14. How did Art change during the Renaissance?
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15. List some of the changes in the way artists were viewed in the later period of the
Renaissance:
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16. Why was the progress of science slow during the European Middle Ages?
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17. Fill in the following chart.
Name
Contribution
Nicolaus
Copernicus
Leonardo da
Vinci
William
Shakespeare
18. What was significant about the invention of the clock?
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19. How did writers contribute to the Renaissance?
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20. Which class changed the most during the Renaissance and why?
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21. What did the Renaissance family look like?
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22. What was it like to be a child in the Renaissance?
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23. What was life like for women during the Renaissance?
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24. What was education like during the Renaissance?
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