Renaissance Foundations
This word means "rebirth" and describes the cultural movement that took place in Europe between approximately 1350 and 1550.
What is Renaissance?
These two Italian cities were important port cities and centers of trade.
What are Venice and Genoa?
This industry was particularly important to Florence and employed approximately 30,000 workers.
What was the textile industry?
This Renaissance intellectual movement emphasized human potential and the study of classical Greek and Latin works.
This Renaissance political thinker wrote The Prince.
Who was Niccolò Machiavelli?
This two ancient civilizations inspired the Renaissance's renewed interest in classical learning.
What is Greece and Rome?
This Italian city was a republic governed by seven major wealthy guilds, according to the presentation.
What is Florence?
This Italian city became particularly associated with the glass industry.
What was Venice?
This term describes the Renaissance emphasis on humans and worldly affairs rather than an exclusive focus on religion.
What is secularism?
Unlike works primarily motivated by religious concerns, The Prince emphasized this consideration in political decision-making.
What was state interest?
This was the dominant influence on thought in medieval Western Europe before the Renaissance.
What was the Catholic Church?
This Italian city-state was governed by an oligarchy ruled by the Great Council.
What is Venice?
Following population decline and recurring waves of plague, this happened to wages.
What is an increase in wages?
This term describes the emphasis on individual learning, human affairs, and personal development.
What is individualism?
This artist is identified in the presentation as an early Renaissance figure who experimented with new art forms.
Who was Giotto?
This early Renaissance phase, from 1350–1400, was marked by declining population, examination of classical texts, and experimentation with art.
What was the 1st Renaissance Phase?
The Visconti and later Sforza families used these hired soldiers to conquer smaller neighboring territories.
What were mercenary soldiers?
According to the presentation, this percentage of European families in Florence controlled approximately 90% of the city's wealth.
What is 10%?
This course of study included grammar, rhetoric, poetry, history, politics, and philosophy.
What was studia humanitatis? (Study of the Humanities)
These three qualities helped Renaissance artists reflect the influence of Greek and Roman art in Raphael's School of Athens.
What are Humanism, Linear Perspective, & Classicism?
During this final Renaissance phase, from 1500–1550, invasions by these two countries transformed Italian political life.
What are France and Spain?
Italy's geography, trade connections, production industries, and weaker feudal influence helped create these independent political and economic centers.
What were Italian City-States?
Mediterranean trade routes, banking, and small-scale manufacturing helped produce this economic condition that supported Renaissance cultural development.
What was prosperity or economic growth?
Humanists studied these ancient writings in hopes of reviving worthy values and making classical learning available to scholars.
What were Greek and Roman classics?
This Renaissance development involved producing written works in the common language of a particular region rather than relying exclusively on Latin.
What was vernacular literature?