GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

GK

WORLD HISTORY

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
What intellectual movement encouraged people to look back to Greece and Rome as a source of inspiration?
A
Multiculturalism
B
Humanism
C
Socialism
D
Geocentralism
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The great intellectual movement of Renaissance Italy was humanism. The humanists believed that the Greek and Latin classics contained both all the lessons one needed to lead a moral and effective life and the best models for a powerful Latin style.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Humanism Movement The Renaissance included an intellectual movement known as Humanism. Among its many principles, humanism promoted the idea that humans are at the center of their own universe and should embrace human achievements in education, classical arts, literature and science.

Detailed explanation-3: -For the people of the Renaissance, it was based on the belief that the literary, scientific and philosophical works of Ancient Greece and Rome provided the best guides for learning and living. The term humanism derived from the program of studies called the ‘studia humanitatis’.

Detailed explanation-4: -While the spirit of the Renaissance ultimately took many forms, it was expressed earliest by the intellectual movement called humanism. Humanism was initiated by secular men of letters rather than by the scholar-clerics who had dominated medieval intellectual life and had developed the Scholastic philosophy.

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