Historians Today Generally Use the Term Renaissance to Refer To

question 26

Multiple Choice

Historians today generally use the term Renaissance to refer to:

• A)a period in economic history when trade was reborn.
• B)a period in European history when the northern countries dominated the culture of the Continent.
• C)a period in European history between 1300 and 1550,during which all aspects of European life were united by a common spirit of the age.
• D)a period of intellectual rebirth after the Dark Ages,when learning had been extinguished.
• E)a period in intellectual and cultural history,marked by a new interest in the study of classical learning.

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A type of asexual spore or bud that is produced by some fungi and can give rise to a new organism without sexual reproduction.

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