Question

1. Renaissance started in Germany.
2. Vasco da Gama discovered the all-sea route to India.
3. Prince Henry of Portugal encouraged navigation
4. George Stephenson developed modern railroad.
5. Copernicus invented Cotton Gin.
6. Renaissance helped in the growth of vernacular literature.
V. Match the columns:​

Answer 1

Answer:

Renaissance started in Germany.

2. Vasco da Gama discovered the all-sea route to India.

3. Prince Henry of Portugal encouraged navigation

4. George Stephenson developed modern railroad.

5. Copernicus invented Cotton Gin.

6. Renaissance helped in the growth of vernacular literature.

V. Match the columns

Answer 2

1) The German Renaissance, part of the Northern Renaissance, was a cultural and artistic movement that spread among German thinkers in the 15th and 16th centuries, which developed from the Italian Renaissance. One of the most important German humanists was Konrad Celtis (1459–1508).

2) Portuguese explorer Vasco de Gama becomes the first European to reach India via the Atlantic Ocean when he arrives at Calicut on the Malabar Coast. Da Gama sailed from Lisbon, Portugal, in July 1497, rounded the Cape of Good Hope, and anchored at Malindi on the east coast of Africa.

3) After procuring the new caravel ship, Henry was responsible for the early development of Portuguese exploration and maritime trade with other continents through the systematic exploration of Western Africa, the islands of the Atlantic Ocean, and the search for new routes.

4) 1 is the first steam locomotive to carry passengers on a public rail line, the Stockton and Darlington Railway in 1825.

5) Cotton gin, machine for cleaning cotton of its seeds, invented in the United States by Eli Whitney in 1793.

6) The creation of the printing press (using movable type) by Johannes Gutenberg in the 1450s encouraged authors to write in their local vernacular rather than in Greek or Latin classical languages, widening the reading audience and promoting the spread of Renaissance ideas.