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The age of great change marked by renewed interest in classical learning and the arts is called the
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Renaissance
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Revolution
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Reformation
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Reconstruction
The age of great change marked by renewed interest in classical learning and the arts is called Renaissance. The Renaissance was a period in European history which began in the 1300s, during the late middle Ages and ended during the 1500s, when the modern era began. Renaissance means "rebirth" in French. During theRenaissance there was a rebirth of interest in ancient Greece and Rome.
_______ created the lifelike statue of ’St. Mark’ in Venice.
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Michaelangelo
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Donatello
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Leonardo Da Vinci
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Raphael
The sculptors of middle ages carved faces, hands, and draperies but the form of the human body could not be detected under the draperies.
Who wrote the ''Divine Comedy''?
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Dante Alighieri
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Francesco Petrarch
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Giovanni Boccaccio
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Niccolo Machiavelli
The Divine Comedy is an Italian long narrative poem by Dante Alighieri. He began the work in 1308 and completed in 1320, a year before his death in 1321. It is widely considered to be one of the greatest works of world literature.
______ was the Father of modern sciences and medieval exponent of observation and experiment.
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Copernicus
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Galileo
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Friar Roger Bacon
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William Harvey
Galileo Galilei was the Father of modern sciences and medieval exponent of observation and experiment. He was the first scientist to record accurate data through his telescope. Galileo supported the theory by Copernicus, that sun is the centre not earth of our Universe.
Whose paintings depicted scenes from robust peasant lives?
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Michaelangelo
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Peter Brueghel, the Elder
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Peter Brueghel, the Younger
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Titian
Who wrote the book 'The Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy'?
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Thomas Paine
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Rousseau
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Jacob Burckhardt
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Voltaire
"The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy" tells about the Italian Renaissance, it was written by Swiss historian Jacob Burckhardt is 1860. The book is divided into six parts.
_______ wrote ''Seven Books on the Structure of the Human Body''.
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Andreas Vesalius
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Gilbert
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Francis Willis
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Peter Lowe
Seven books of the Structure of the Human Body was written by Andreas Vesalius. The book was published in 1543. It was a collection of speeches by Vesalius in Padua. This book is an advance description of human anatomy.
Vasco da Gama discovered the sea route to India in the year _____.
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1498
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1492
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1490
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1453
Vasco da Gama was a Portuguese explorer who reached India by sea on May 17, 1498. His fleet reached Kappakadavu near Calicut in the current Indian state of Kerala.
Who laid the foundation of Mathematical astronomy?
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Kepler
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Galileo
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Copernicus
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Ptolemy
- the planets move in an elliptical orbit with the sun in the centre,
- the time necessary to traverse an arc of a planetary orbit is proportional to the area of the sector between the central body and that arc,
- there is an exact relationship between the squares of the planets’ periodic times and the cubes of the radii of their orbits.
Humanism started in ______.
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France
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Italy
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Germany
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England
A shift from God centred literary activities to human centred literary trends is known as humanism. Petrarch is supposed to have been the original thinker who preached humanism. Humanism spread from Italy to other parts of Europe.