Chapter 13 History Test

the ancient trade routes that connected Europe with China.

• Silk Roads

• Wiliam Shakespeare

• Renaissance

• printing press

a movement in Renaissance Europe, celebrating human potential and achievement and stressing the study of subjects such as history, grammar, literature, and philosophy.

• Humanism

• perspective

• vernacular

• Elizabethan Age

a period of rebirth and creativity in art, writing, and thought from about A.D.1300 to 1600, beginning in Italy and eventually spreading throughout Europe.

• Renaissance

• patron

• Johann Gutenberg

• Michelangelo

a person who supports an activity or institution by providing financial backing.

• patron

• perspective

• Leonardo da Vinci

• William Shakespeare

a technique of painting, developed during the Renaissance, that represents the appearance of objects in three-dimensional space.

• perspective

• Elizabethan Age

• Silk Roads

• patron

an Italian Renaissance painter, born in A.D. 1452, who painted masterpieces, such as the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper, and also excelled in scientific research.

• Leonardo da Vinci

• William Shakespeare

• Michelangelo

• vernacular

an Italian Renaissance artist, born in A.D. 1475, who worked mainly as a sculptor but also painted such famous works as the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in Rome.

• Michelangelo

• Johann Gutenberg

• printing press

• vernacular

most famous English writer of the Renaissance, best known for his plays Romeo and Juliet and Hamlet.

• William Shakespeare

• Silk Roads

• patron

• Leonardo da Vinci

the period of the rule of Queen Elizabeth I in England, from 1558 to 1603.

• Elizabethan Age

• Renaissance

• Humanism

• vernacular

a German who, in the mid-1400s, invented a press for printing with movable type.

• printing press

• Johann Gutenberg

• Silk Roads

• William Shakespeare