HISTORY
THE RENAISSANCE AND REFORMATION
|
Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
|
|
|
Greek and Roman
|
|
|
French and Italian
|
|
|
Islam and Christianity
|
|
|
Chinese and Indian
|
Detailed explanation-1: -Humanism During the Renaissance Humanism was an important philosophy that helped ignite the curiosity and desire for knowledge that led to the beginning of the Renaissance. By the 13th century, people began wanting to learn more about classic Greek and Roman culture, literature, and philosophy.
Detailed explanation-2: -What is “Humanism"? “In the simplest terms, ‘humanism’ refers to how Greek art and literature-and art and literature in that tradition-puts the human experience at the center of events, in contrast the Hebrews and Christians put God at that center” (Early Greek Humanism).
Detailed explanation-3: -Classical humanism is a way of describing the intellectual and philosophical movement that came about when scholars and philosophers returned to reading some of the secular classical works from Greek and Roman antiquity.
Detailed explanation-4: -Francesco Petrarca (known as Petrarch in English) has been identified as the first humanist, since Georg Voigt called Petrarch “the father of Humanism” in 1859 (see Voigt 1960 in Origins of Humanism).