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I was having some trouble finishing my homework and wanted to know correct answers for the ones I had trouble with before the exam. Please help, Thanks(: Select the incorrect statement about the Renaissance. Choose one answer. a. Meaning "rebirth," this was a period of time where people began to start fresh after the devastation of the Black Death. b. It began in Italy out of the humanism movement. c. Great thinkers looked to the accomplishments of the Middle Ages as inspiration. d. This was a time when people reverted to the ancient Greek and Roman classics for the basis of their ideas. Which of the following characteristics is different from Italian Renaissance art and most identifies the work produced in the northern Renaissance? Choose one answer. a. artists became famous personalities b. use of perspective c. realism and expression d. reflected everyday life Which northern Renaissance artist was considered the greatest German artist, known for his prints as well as paintings? Choose one answer. a. Leonardo da Vinci b. Albrecht Durer c. William Shakespeare d. Michelangelo Identify the author who wrote a book entitled The Prince, which was a guidebook for leaders, and stated that it is better for a leader to be "feared than loved." Choose one answer. a. William Shakespeare b. Niccolo Machiavelli c. Desiderius Erasmus d. Giovanni Pico della Mirandola What invention, developed by Johannes Gutenberg in 1454, enabled ideas to spread quickly? Choose one answer. a. telephone b. printing press c. Internet d. telegraph What movement centered around studies of classics and belief in individual accomplishments? Choose one answer. a. rebirth of Medieval ideology b. movement instilling that Church was all-powerful c. humanism d. empiricism The secular focus of the Renaissance movement was unlike that prior to the Black Death, where the Church was seen as an all-powerful Answer: True False

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1. The Renaissance (French for "rebirth"; Italian: Rinascimento, from re- "again" and nascere "be born")[1] was a cultural movement that spanned roughly the 14th to the 17th century, beginning in Florence in the Late Middle Ages and later spreading to the rest of Europe. The term is also used more loosely to refer to the historic era, but since the changes of the Renaissance were not uniform across Europe, this is a general use of the term. As a cultural movement, it encompassed a resurgence of learning based on classical sources, the development of linear perspective in painting, and gradual but widespread educational reform. Traditionally, this intellectual transformation has resulted in the Renaissance being viewed as a bridge between the Middle Ages and the Modern era. Although the Renaissance saw revolutions in many intellectual pursuits, as well as social and political upheaval, it is perhaps best known for its artistic developments and the contributions of such polymaths as Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo, who inspired the term "Renaissance man".[2][3] There is a general, but not unchallenged, consensus that the Renaissance began in Florence, Tuscany in the 14th century.[4] Various theories have been proposed to account for its origins and characteristics, focusing on a variety of factors including the social and civic peculiarities of Florence at the time; its political structure; the patronage of its dominant family, the Medici;[5] and the migration of Greek scholars and texts to Italy following the Fall of Constantinople at the hands of the Ottoman Turks.[6][7][8] The Renaissance has a long and complex historiography, and there has been much debate among historians as to the usefulness of Renaissance as a term and as a historical delineation.[9] Some have called into question whether the Renaissance was a cultural "advance" from the Middle Ages, instead seeing it as a period of pessimism and nostalgia for the classical age,[10] while others have instead focused on the continuity between the two eras.[11] Indeed, some have called for an end to the use of the term, which they see as a product of presentism – the use of history to validate and glorify modern ideals.[12] The word Renaissance has also been used to describe other historical and cultural movements, such as the Carolingian Renaissance and the Renaissance