Slide 5: Literature and Performing Arts

1. What else were wealthy persons in European society during the period 1450-1750 able
to fund (patronize)? List 2 & explain what they were able to do regarding culture:
2. Identify the 4 groups who were wealthy enough to patronize writers and playwrights:
3. How did these writers and playwrights effect modern languages?
4. Provide examples for writers credited with formalizing the common vernacular (local
languages) & grammar rules we use today in English and Spanish:
5. Define vernacular language and provide an example:
6. How did Shakespeare (English) and Cervantes (Spanish) become so famous?
7. Who funded them and how did their work spread so widely and quickly?
Slide 6: Continued from previous slide: Literature and Performing Arts
1. Which Chinese author popularized Chinese writing and with which book?
2. Was Wu Cheng’en’s book Journey to the West popular?
3. What was the subject of Journey to the West?
4. How did the work of Shakespeare in England, Cervantes in Spain, and Wu Cheng in
China effect literacy?
5. In addition to books, what were also funded and by whom?
6. What did these plays and books encapsulate?
7. Identify several examples of Shakespeare’s work:
8. What is Kabuki, and where was it practiced?
Slide 7: The Scientific Revolution
1. What new technologies were introduced during the early modern era?
2. In which states did people experience relaxed religious control?
3. What did relaxed religious control allow the develop?
4. Identify and explain 3 old ideas that were being disproved:
5. Identify a theory and an invention which will start the scientific revolution, by replacing
old classical ideas/teachings with new scientifically proven truths:
6. What 3 things were emphasized now in the pursuit of scientific facts?
7. Provide 2 examples of new, proven advancements in science regarding human
understanding of the physical world: