Renaissance Flashcards

286783836	effected all of western europe	the renaissance period	0
286783837	the renaissance period	after the middle ages, stronger trade system, lasted from the mid 1300s to the early 1700s	1
286783838	the renaissance period	time of rebirth of classical learing of ancient greece and rome	2
286783839	philosophy	searching for truth and meaning; better understanding of human nature; studying socrates, plato, and aristotle	3
286783840	literature	the iliad, the odyssey, the aeneid	4
286783841	art	beautification of the human body; balance and harmony	5
286783842	science	geocentric theory; human anatomy, circumference of the earth	6
286783843	ptolemy	known for the geocentric theory	7
286783844	galen	known for the human anatomy	8
286783845	eratosthenes	known for the circumference of the earth	9
286783846	reason	aristotles locgica, thinking, organizing and classifing data, drawing conclusions	10
286783847	florence italy	where the birth of the renaissance took place	11
286783848	the medici family	first to start the patrons of the arts, controlled gov't from behind the scenes, family of merchants, one of the brothers became a pope	12
286783849	patron of the arts	person who would take a starving artist in and house, clothe, and feed him; artists would make art for either family or for beautifican of the city	13
286783850	started off as starving artists	michelangelo, rafael, donatello, leonardo da vinci	14
286783851	humanites	study of classical literature, rhetoric, grammer, and history; renaissance men were intrested in it	15
286783852	humanists	schoarly people who wrote on nonreligious ideas such as human experiences and emotions	16
286783853	famous humanists	francesco petrarch, william shakespeare	17
286783854	francesco petrarch	father of humanism, first to write in prose, addressed his letters to laura	18
286783855	renaissance	became an explosion of creative and independant thinking	19
286783856	johannes gutenberg	invented the printing press in germany	20
286783857	subhistorical time periods of renaissance	reformation, scientific revolution, exploration	21
286783858	baldassare castiglione	author of the courtier, wrote his opinion of a ren. man, diplomat who worked for the medicis , messanger	22
286783859	isabella d'este	married to king--husband died she was left to rule, wrote letters mostly to michelangelo, thought ren. women were greater then ren. men	23
286783860	code of life during renaissance	individual achievement for fame and wealth; enjoy life	24
286783861	goverment during renaissance	centrailized for due to strong kings; formation of nation-states	25
286783862	economy during renaissance	growth of trade b/t middle east and europe, growth of middle class, merchants becoming patrons of the arts,	26
286783863	middle class during renaissance	between very rich and very poor, made up of merchants, traders, doctors, lawyers, ect.	27
286783864	loyalty during renaissance	king and country first followed by pride in ones city/town , people loyal to themselves	28
286783865	education during renaissance	very important, classical learning and modern info, scientists testing middle ages theories, humanities, learing lots of subjects	29
286783866	catholic church during renaissance	loss of influence, more intrested in life on earth	30
286783867	cities/towns during renaissance	enhanced through urbanization and beautiful due to increased wealth of middle class	31
286783868	art during renaissance	studied the way greeks/romans portrayed human body, self portraits, sculptures, religious paintings, and technique of perspective (3 dimensional)	32
286783869	literature during renaissance	autobiographies, lives of real people, prose, themes about emotions, relationships, and personalities	33