Grade 7 Standards Guide 30
Chapter 30 Standard Guide: Leading Figures of the Renaissance
Key Terms
• Printing press
• Johannes Gutenberg
• Titian
• Albrecht Dürer
• Nicolaus Copernicus
• Andreas Vesalius
• Isabella I
• Elizabeth I
• William Shakespeare
• Don Quixote
Essential Questions
1. How did Renaissance ideas spread throughout the world? Why was Gutenberg’s invention so important?
2. In what ways did Michelangelo, Titian, and Dürer contribute to Renaissance art?
3. What was significant about the scientific discoveries of Copernicus and Vesalius?
4. Why are Isabella I and Elizabeth I considered Renaissance queens? What aspects of their rule embodied the spirit of the Renaissance period?
5. What famous works of literature were written during the Renaissance? Why were these works so influential? How do they reflect the ideals of the Renaissance?
6. In what ways did Leonardo de Vinci exemplify the Renaissance ideal?
7.8 Students analyze the origins, accomplishments, and geographic diffusion of the Renaissance.
7.8.4. Describe the growth and effects of new ways of disseminating information (e.g., the ability to manufacture paper, translation of the Bible into the vernacular, printing).
7.8.5. Detail advances made in literature, the arts, science, mathematics, cartography, engineering, and the understanding of human anatomy and astronomy (e.g., by Dante Alighieri, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo di Buonarroti Simoni, Johann Gutenberg, William Shakespeare).
