The Renaissance Vocabulary Quiz

Renaissance

• a doctrine, attitude, or way of life centered on human interests or values

• emphasis on living well in this world and understanding better the activities of this world

• a period of European cultural, artistic, political and economic “rebirth” following the Middle Ages

• parallel lines converging to a single point

Humanism

• a doctrine, attitude, or way of life centered on human interests or values

• emphasis on living well in this world and understanding better the activities of this world

• a period of European cultural, artistic, political and economic “rebirth” following the Middle Ages

• parallel lines converging to a single point

Secularism

• a doctrine, attitude, or way of life centered on human interests or values

• emphasis on living well in this world and understanding better the activities of this world

• a period of European cultural, artistic, political and economic “rebirth” following the Middle Ages

• parallel lines converging to a single point

Perspective

• a doctrine, attitude, or way of life centered on human interests or values

• emphasis on living well in this world and understanding better the activities of this world

• a period of European cultural, artistic, political and economic “rebirth” following the Middle Ages

• parallel lines converging to a single point

vernacular

• the local language that the people spoke

• a political written wok by Niccolò Machiavelli, written in 1513

• an Italian banking family and political dynasty that held most of the power in the Republic of Florence

• wealthy people who sponsored artists & commissioned works

The Medici Family

• the local language that the people spoke

• a political written wok by Niccolò Machiavelli, written in 1513

• an Italian banking family and political dynasty that held most of the power in the Republic of Florence

• wealthy people who sponsored artists & commissioned works

Patron(s)

• the local language that the people spoke

• a political written wok by Niccolò Machiavelli, written in 1513

• an Italian banking family and political dynasty that held most of the power in the Republic of Florence

• wealthy people who sponsored artists & commissioned works

The Prince

• the local language that the people spoke

• a political written work by Niccolò Machiavelli, written in 1513

• an Italian banking family and political dynasty that held most of the power in the Republic of Florence

• wealthy people who sponsored artists & commissioned works

usury

• unable to read or write

• an agricultural laborer bound under the feudal system to work on their lord's estate

• the period of European history from the fall of the Roman Empire in the West to the fall of Constantinople

• the lending of money at very high interest rates

illiteracy

• unable to read or write

• an agricultural laborer bound under the feudal system to work on their lord's estate

• the period of European history from the fall of the Roman Empire in the West to the fall of Constantinople

• the lending of money at very high interest rates