Renaissance Test

1. What historical event (the fall of a civilization) took place in 395 AD to usher in the middle ages?
Fall of Rome

2. What was society and culture generally like in the middle ages?
Not many people know how to read and write, people are usually very poor and very rich.
3. Renaissance means _______Rebirth________.

4. What was being brought back during this time?
Greeks and Rome ideals
Define:
5. Contraposto
Paint the shape or the curve of human body
6. Chiaroscuro
Paint dark and light like shadow
7. The painter of the Mona Lisa was ______Da Vinci__________

8. The man who sculpted the Pieta and the Sistine Chapel was _____Michelangelo____

9. What is different about Renaissance painting compared to painting during the Dark Ages?
No contraposto and no chiaroscuro
10. What is meant by the concept of "Humanism?"
People are perfect and good

NY times article

I read a story is Life, this story is about a guy he live in Haiti. Haiti is a place that is really poor. The country that is too poor donkeys and horses are staring a die. The city is out of control and the traffic helpless. One day there is a woman. She is going to have a baby on the street and the people help the woman. They carry her to the hospital and safe the woman and her baby. This story tells me this country is really poor but the people over there are really kind. Haiti had a earthquake and the many people die over there, I think we should help them. The people over there all have good heart and every people are special. We should help them and they also have right the live. People in the world all have to help each other because we all are same creature.