Starter quiz
- The civil war that began in England during the reign of Henry VI was known as the War of the...
- 'Roses' ✓
- Which of these battles was the bloodiest ever fought on English soil?
- Towton ✓
- Mortimer's Cross
- St Albans
- Barnet
- Wakefield
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- The Paston letters reveal how families from which social group were impacted by the Wars of the Roses?
- The nobility
- The peasantry
- The clergy
- The gentry ✓
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- Which of these aspects of strong kingship were tested during the Wars of the Roses?
- A king's ability to wage war ✓
- A king's piety
- A king's ability to win territory overseas
- A king's ability to control unruly nobles ✓
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- Starting with the earliest, place these events in chronological order.
- 1⇔Henry VI is captured at St Albans
- 2⇔Richard, duke of York, is killed at Warwick
- 3⇔Edward IV is victorious at Towton
- 4⇔Richard III seizes the throne
- 5⇔Henry VII defeats Richard III at Bosworth
- Which of these best describes who was affected by the Wars of the Roses?
- The gentry, the nobility and the Houses of York and Lancaster
- Men and women from all social classes ✓
- The clergy and the peasants
- The Houses of York, Lancaster and Tudor
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Exit quiz
- Which of these humanists came earliest?
- Niccoli
- Bracciolini
- Petrarch ✓
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- With the rediscovery of classical knowledge, this period saw artistic and scientific ‘rebirth’ known as the...
- 'Renaissance' ✓
- Which of these best describes Lucretius' De rerum natura?
- It was a religious poem about the nature of God
- It was a poem arguing about the things that make up the universe ✓
- It was a poem written as an attack on the Catholic Church
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- Humanists were interested in the ______ world of ancient Greece and Rome.
- 'classical' ✓
- When Niccoli received Bracciolini's copy of De rerum natura he ______ it.
- 'copied' ✓
- Where did humanists like Petrarch and Bracciolini find classical documents?
- In the great university libraries of the age
- In the markets of the Italian city-states.
- In the libraries of religious buildings ✓
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Key learning points
- The Renaissance began in the 14th century.
- More scholars were interested in the Greek and Roman world.
- The Renaissance was sparked by intellectual curiosity.
- The Renaissance began in southern Europe.
- Educated people such as humanists communicated in Latin.
Common misconception
Pupils may think that many of the ideas of the Renaissance were new to science, literature and art.
Explain to pupils that the Renaissance was a period during which knowledge lost in Western Europe was rediscovered, rather than created for the first time.
Keywords
Renaissance - from a French term for ‘rebirth’, the Renaissance was a period of revival in European art and literature under the influence of classical ideas
Classical - something is classical when it relates to ancient Greece or Rome
Humanists - humanists were people who were interested in the classical world and the potential of the human race
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