Vocab
What is a patron of the arts?
Who invented to printing press?
Who is Johann Gutenberg?
Erasmus, Montaigne, and Petrarch believed
What is education should be more widespread and based on reason?
Define humanism
What is a system of thought that centres on humans and their values, potential, and worth; concerned with the welfare of humans?
3 main reasons why Renaissance ideas were slow to spread out of Italy into the rest of Western Europe?
What is war, religion, and feudalism?
Local, common, or native languages
What is vernacular?
What is China?
This philosopher believed that students should be taught to discover, reason, argue, and apply their knowledge.
Who is Erasmus?
Who painted the Sistine chapel?
Who is Michealangelo?
The Renaissance started in
What is Italy?
Having to do with physical things instead of spirituality
What is secular?
The group of people most opposed to the invention of the printing press
What are priests?
The Last Supper was painted by
Who is Leonardo da Vinci?
An individual who is curious about many things and has the ability to accomplish success in many disciplines is
What is a Renaissance Man?
How did art change in the Renaiisance?
Figures in paintings became more lief- like(realistic)
What is the status quo?
What is an existing way of doing things?
Another significant invention during the Renaissance was
What is the mechanical clock?
Nicolaus Copernicus developed this important theory
What is the sun being the centre of the universe and the earth revolving around the sun?
According to humanist philosophers, which society was superior to them?
What is Greek/Roman?
This class emerged and quality of life improved and they contributed to capitalist society?
The art of persuasive speaking and writing
What is rhetoric?
This poet and playwright benefited from the printing press, allowing him to write plays and poems that are still studied worldwide to this day.
Who is William Shakespeare?
How did Renaissance writers influence the Renaissance worldview?
They helped standardize different languages with the same vocabulary, spelling, and grammar. Standardized languages also increased a common sense of identity among their speakers, readers, and writers.
The rising middle class contributed to the growth of
What is a capitalist society?
__________ Scholars from helped lay the groundwork for the many developments in astronomy during the Renaissance
What is Islamic?