TCI Lessons 33 & 34

a Renaissance artist, renowned for his painting and sculpture

• Cicero

• Michelangelo

• Pablo Picasso

• Jackson Pollack

common language

• vernacular

• idiom

• rhetoric

• foreign

a great Italian author of the Renaissance who wrote The Divine Comedy

• William Shakespeare

• Dante Alighieri

• Umberto Eco

• Stephen King

What is a characteristic feature of a city-state?

• It has its own independent government.

• It is part of a larger empire.

• It is governed by a council of nobles.

• It is ruled by a monarch.

relating to earthly life rather than to religious or spiritual matters

• spiritual

• godly

• secular

• natural

a Florentine sculptor who was one of the first to use a realistic, lifelike style

• Degas

• Da Vinci

• Raphael

• Donatello

individualism

• a system or organization in which people or groups are ranked one above the other according to status or authority

• someone who willingly suffers death or great hardship rather than renounce their religious beliefs or a cause they believe in

• a society in which all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs

• the belief in the importance of an individual’s achievements and dignity

Renaissance

• 2. a movement in the arts and literature, emphasizing inspiration, subjectivity, and the primacy of the individual.

  3. 2.

• a great flowering of culture, based on classical Greek and Roman ideas and art, that began in Italy in the Late Middle Ages and spread throughout Europe

• a socio-economic and political system characterized by a hierarchical structure where land ownership and military service formed the basis of social and political relationships. 

• a small group of people having control of a country, organization, or institution.

republics

• a form of government in which citizens elect representatives to rule for them

• characterized by a leader, or a group of leaders, who hold governmental powers with few to no limitations.

• political system based upon the undivided sovereignty or rule of a single person

• relating to or supporting democracy or its principles.

an Italian city-state and leading cultural center during the Renaissance

• Madrid

• Florence

• Paris

• London