Question

Answer the following questions:

1. Search Unit 5: The Renaissance: Patrons, Artists, and Scholars.

2. Go to Chapter 7

3. Read the entire chapter

4. Answer the following questions:

- If you saw a person walking down the street during the Renaissance period, how would you know his or her degree of wealth and social class?

- How did many of the European ruling families become related to one another?

Answer 1

1. You might know the class of someone in Renaissance Era Europe by their clothes or special family colors they might wear to indicate their social status.

2. Many noble families married into eachother to ensure that their money remained with them and not allowing the poor to work their way up the social latter. Eventually, this lead to a lot of inbreeding and birth defects.