Renaissance Test Flashcards
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| 91922584 | Renaissance | ("rebirth") period of renewed interest of art and learning in Europe | 0 | |
| 91922585 | Secular | interested in worldly rather than religious matters | 1 | |
| 91922586 | Marco Polo | traveler who left Venice, Italy to go to China with his uncle. | 2 | |
| 91922587 | Medici | Florence's wealthiest family. Family of bankers with bank branches as far as London | 3 | |
| 91922588 | Diplomacy | The art of negotiating with other countries | 4 | |
| 91922589 | Niccolo Machiavelli | an author and diplomat in the renaissance. wrote "the prince" in 1513 | 5 | |
| 91922590 | Humanism | Renaissance movement based on the values of the ancient Greeks and Romans, such as that individuals and human society were important | 6 | |
| 91922591 | Johannes Gutenberg | developed a printing press with movable type in the early 1450s | 7 | |
| 91922592 | Leonardo DaVinci | one of the most well known artist/scientists/inventors of the Renaissance, 1452-1519, The true Renaissance man, a painter, engineer, scientist, inventor and sculptor. Most famous for the Mona Lisa and his great facial expressions. | 8 | |
| 91922593 | Michaelangelo | painter, sculptor, and architect of the renaisance; painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in Rome | 9 | |
| 91922594 | William Shakespeare | English poet and dramatist considered one of the greatest English writers of the renaissance(1564-1616) | 10 | |
| 91922595 | Antiquity | looking to the past | 11 | |
| 91922596 | Vernacular | everyday language used in a country or region | 12 | |
| 91922597 | Florence | which city-state was th the cross-reads of a major trade routes? | 13 | |
| 91922598 | An interest of art and learning | The Renaissance was a rebirth of what? | 14 | |
| 91922599 | Ancient Greece & Rome | What ancient civilizations were seen as ideal? | 15 | |
| 91922600 | Bubonic Plague | the renaissance was a recovery from what disasters? | 16 | |
| 91922601 | Chinese Silk and Indian Spices | what were the new goods brought by italian merchants? | 17 | |
| 91922602 | Florence (medici) | which city-state was controlled by Cosimo de' Medici? | 18 | |
| 91922603 | learning how to be a successful ruler and to do whatever is necessary to protect your kingdom | What was The Prince about? | 19 | |
| 91922604 | Venice | Which city-state linked asia and western europe? | 20 | |
| 91922605 | The Bible | What was the first book printed on the printing press? | 21 | |
| 91922606 | Peasants | which social class made up 2-3% of the population? | 22 | |
| 91922607 | 1350-1550 | When was the renaissance? | 23 | |
| 91922608 | Italy | in what country did the renaissance begin? | 24 | |
| 91922609 | Scrolls | what began to be studied to learn our history? | 25 |