Renaissance culture and science
Answers are for parents and teachers.
1
Write five Renaissance figures with their fields in a table.
Sample: Leonardo — painter; Michelangelo — sculptor; Shakespeare — playwright; Copernicus — astronomer; Locke — philosopher.
2
Why did national languages develop in the Renaissance? 2 sentences.
Literature needed to be understood by ordinary people too; many works were written in Italian, Spanish and French instead of Latin.
3
Write the contributions of Copernicus, Galileo and Newton in one sentence.
Copernicus — the Earth moves round the Sun; Galileo — telescope observations; Newton — law of gravitation.
4
Explain “utopia” in your own words and give one example.
A dream of a perfect society that does not exist; example: Thomas More’s ideal island state.