Topic 15 Vocabulary Quiz (set 1)

related to commerce or trade

• Industrial
• Agricultural
• Residential
• mercantile

French for "rebirth"; refers to a period of cultural revival in Europe from the 1300s to the 1500s

• Revolution
• Dark Ages
• Enlightenment
• Renaissance

someone who gives money or other support to a person or group

• Beneficiary
• Patron
• Opponent
• Adversary

a cultural movement of the Renaissance based on the study of classical works

• barbarism
• materialism
• pessimism
• humanism

the view that religion need not be the center of human affairs

• Secularism
• Monotheism
• Religious fundamentalism
• Theocracy

everyday spoken language

• Ancient hieroglyphics
• Computer programming language
• Musical notation
• vernacular

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

• collectivism
• communalism
• individualism
• socialism

an imaginary, ideal place

• chaos
• dystopia
• utopia
• reality

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

• satire
• drama
• romance
• horror

having to do with city or town life

• rural
• suburban
• civic

• metropolitan