WORLD HISTORY

EMERGENCE OF USA

HOW DID THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION INFLUENCE THE FRENCH REVOLUTION

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
What was one ideal of Renaissance humanism?
A
Training as a knight and practicing chivalry
B
Obeying the divine right of monarchs and the church
C
Living apart from the world and taking monastic vows.
D
Investigating areas of interest and fulfilling one’s potential.
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -(4) investigating areas of interest and fulfilling. one’s potential. Renaissance humanism inherently promoted self actualization. This view advocate people to not conforming to societal standard, but rather trully focused on our own passion and talent.

Detailed explanation-2: -Renaissance humanists sought to create a citizenry able to speak and write with eloquence and clarity, and thus capable of engaging in the civic life of their communities and persuading others to virtuous and prudent actions.

Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -The artists associated with Renaissance Humanism pioneered revolutionary artistic methods from one point linear perspective to trompe l’oeil to chiaroscuro to create illusionary space and new genres, including frontal portraiture, self-portraiture, and landscape.

Detailed explanation-5: -Renaissance Humanism was an intellectual movement typified by a revived interest in the classical world and studies which focussed not on religion but on what it is to be human. Its origins went back to 14th-century Italy and such authors as Petrarch (1304-1374) who searched out ‘lost’ ancient manuscripts.

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