Renaissance Vocab

The Renaissance was

• an era of time after the Greeks and Romans ruled in Europe with new types of music and traditional dress

• an era beginning in the 1700s full of revolutions in the various countries of Europe

• an era beginning in 1350-1700s, marked by a rebirth in Europe in the areas of art, government, and religion

The Black Death was

• a disease similar to covid in the fact it killed about 10% of the worlds population and was spread by rats

• a death caused by skin turning black caused by people living in the country and away from water sources.

• a disease carried by rats that plagued Europe and moved society from the middle ages to the Renaissance

Feudalism is a(n)

• rigid economic and social system during the middle ages based on tradition and dependence

• another word for the manor system during the Renaissance

• time of change between the dark ages and the Renaissance

A merchant is a person who

• owned a store where goods were sold but did buy or sell to make money

• bought and sold goods during the Renaissance as a part of the rising class system

• made money by traveling to new worlds in search of raw materials

Humanism is

• a Renaissance intellectual movement in which thinkers studied classical texts and focused on human potential and achievements.

• being like a human or person

• painting where people are the only subjects in focus

• an era during the middle ages where people were discovering humans

Secularism is

• A religious belief where there is only one God

• concerned with worldly rather than spiritual matters

• A type of government in which religion plays no part

• a religious belief in many Gods

Individualism is

• A philosophy that emphasizes the moral worth of the individual and what they can do

• A type of government system that counts each persons vote

• A type of economic system where the individual has the responsibility

• A type of religious belief in one's self and not a God

Realism is

• A style of painting that is dreamlike and what the world should look like

• A type of music that sounds like real sounds not ones that are generated by computers

• artistic movement in which people are the only subject along with background images

• artistic movement in which writers and painters sought to show life as it is rather than life as it should be

What is a Renaissance-Man?

• A man who lived during the Renaissance period
• A man who is skilled in multiple fields
• A man who invented the Renaissance period
• A man who wrote a book about the Renaissance period

The printing press is

• Invented by Thomas Edison allowing written word to travel great distances

• A modern digital device to record ones ideas and beliefs so generations will have them later

• Invented by Johannes Gutenberg and helped spread new ideas quickly and cheaply

• A type of musical instrument where sound is made by pressing printing materials together quickly