Renaissance
This powerful family ruled Florence and were major patrons of the arts
What is the The Medici Family?
What is the printing press?
This Spanish explorer's voyage in 1492 led to European awareness of the Americas (fraud)
What is Christopher Columbus?
This new economic system emphasized wealth based on trade, markets, and commerce rather than land ownership
What is Capitalism?
This artist painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel
What is Michelangelo?
What is Niccolo Machiavelli?
This device, improved during the Renaissance, used lenses to make distant objects appear closer and was crucial for astronomy and exploration
What is the telescope?
This term describes the exchange of crops, animals, and diseases between Europe and the Americas after 1492
What is the columbian exchange?
This financial institution developed in Renaissance Italy allowed merchants to safely store money and transfer funds using credit
What is a bank?
This technique creates the allusion of depth by making objects farther away appear lighter and less detailed
What is Atmospheric Perspective?
This Italian city is considered the birthplace of the Renaissance
What is Florence?
This navigational tool, based on the position of stars, helped sailors determine latitude at sea
What is the Astrolabe?
This country controlled much of the Americas after Columbus's voyages
This industry became one of the most important parts of Europes commercial revolution, especially producing cloth like wool and linen for trade
What is the textile industry?
This system of belief placed humans and their achievements at the center of intellectual life rather than religion alone
What is Secularism?
This movement focused on the study of classical greek and Roman texts
What is Humanism?
This improvement in ship design allowed sailors to travel more effectively against the wind during the age of exploration
What is the caravel?
This economic theory held that colonies existed primarily to benefit the mother country by providing raw materials and creating trade balance
What is the Price Revolution?
This term describes the Renaissance practice of wealthy individuals funding artists and writers in exchange for prestige and influence
What is Patronage?
This artistic technique uses light and shadow to create the illusion of three-dimensional depth on a flat surface
What is chiaroscuro?
This artistic innovation used mathematical principles to create realistic depth and space in paintings, marking a major shift in Renaissance visual representation
What is linear perspective?
This Spanish system forced Native Americans (the og's) to provide labor in exchange for protection and Christian instruction
What is the encomienda system?
This system of business organization allowed investors to pool money together and share both risk and profit from overseas trade
This technique uses exaggerated ideal proportions and poses to represent the human body in its most perfect and realistic form
What is Classical naturalism?