Topic 15 Vocabulary Quiz

the view that religion need not be the center of human affairs​ ​ (a)  

• secularism
• mercantile
• Renaissance
• scientific method
• patron

French for “rebirth”, refers to a period of cultural revival in Europe from the 1300’s to the 1500's​ (a)  

• Renaissance
• mercantile
• scientific method
• patron
• secularism

related to commerce or trade ​ (a)  

• mercantile
• scientific method
• patron
• secularism
• Renaissance

someone who gives money or other support to a person or group​ (a)  

• patron
• scientific method
• secularism
• Renaissance
• mercantile

a method of using observation, experiments, and careful reasoning to gain new knowledge ​ (a)  

• scientific method
• mercantile
• Renaissance
• patron
• secularism

What is the theory that all knowledge is gained through experience and observing with the senses?

What is a cultural movement of the Renaissance based on the study of classical works?

Match the following

• vernacular

• everyday spoken language

• heresy

• an imaginary, ideal place

• utopia

• the belief in the importance of the individual as opposed to the larger community

• individualism

• a belief that is rejected by official Church doctrine

• Heliocentric theory

• the theory that places the sun at the center of the universe

What is the process of looking at specific facts and making general principles or rules based on those facts?

Match the following

• satire

• work of literature that makes fun of its subject often mocking vice or folly

• Federalism

• the belief that knowledge is gained by thinking things through using reason

• Rationalism

• a form of government in which power is divided between local and national levels