Renaissance Vocabulary

Areas of study that focus on human life and culture; such as history, literature and ethics:

• humanities

• satire

• perspective

• republic

An independent state consisting of a city and it's surrounding territories:

• city-like

• city-scape

• city-state

• city-ville

A form of government in which people elect representatives to rule in their name:

• tyranny

• monarchy

• republic

• oligarchy

Relating to earthly life rather than to religion or spiritual matters:

• satire

• securities

• tragedy

• secular

Everyday language of ordinary people

• Vernacular

• Realism

• Doctrine

• Simony

following the Middle Ages, a movement that centered on the revival of interest in the classical learning of Greece and Rome

• Vernacular

• Humanism

• Secularism

• Renaissance

Humanism

• A small independent state ruled by a powerful city. This was the common form of government in Italy during the Renaissance.

• A person, family, or group that supports an artist, paying them for their work.

• to put or change into an improved form or condition

• was a philosophy that all people should strive to be educated and learned in the classical arts, literature, and science. It looked for realism and human emotion in art. It also said that it was okay for people to pursue comfort, riches, and beauty.

Who painted the Mona Lisa?

• Michelangelo

• Donatello

• Jan Van Eyck

• Leonardo da Vinci

Where did the Renaissance begin?

• England

• Norway

• Italy

• Spain

What event killed 30 million people, or a third of Europe's population, during the late Middle Ages?

• The Black Death

• Hundred Years War

• A Tsunami

• The Renaissance