Question

List at least three changes took place in the renaissance.

Answer 1

Sample Response: Many things changed during the Renaissance, but the most important shift was from the religious to the secular. There were still religious people and ideas - including Dante and Erasmus - but they thought differently about life or wrote from a more humanist perspective.

Answer 2

During the renaissance, art, religion, science, technology and philosophy all changed.

In art, perspective and porportion made art more realistic looking. The subject matter of art also changed. No longer was all the art religious. For example, artists started to sketch nature and Leonardo da Vinci painted his famous Mona Lisa.

Before the renaissance, there was only one religion in Europe: Roman Catholic Christian. The renaissance/reformation changed that. Groups such as the Protestant, Lutherean, Anglican, and Calvinist religions started to pop up. They had different beliefs, practices, and ideologys, even though they are all branches of Christianity today.

Scientists like Galileo changed popular held beliefs about science. A scientific method for testing theories was formulated. The invention of the printing press ensured that information could be spread quicker and cheaper.

Finally, the renaissance is marked by a change in thinking. Previously, most people were fatalists, which meant that they believed their destinies were pre-chosen and nothing they did would change them. New thinkers called humanists believed that humans had freedom of choice and weren't as concerned with spiritual matters.

(Thanks Grade 8 teacher for all this information!)