Pre-Renaissance Medieval Times
Vocabulary
Process of Ideas
During/after Renaissance
Exchange of Ideas
100

This disease spread quickly throughout Europe, killing over half the population

What is the black Death?
100
Means rebirth or revival.
What is the renaissance?
100

Many of the writers of this period wrote in the vernacular (the everyday language of the people).

What is the Renaissance?

100
Although Expansionism was a main goal during European exploration, it eventually led to this.
What is imperialism?
100

This route allowed traders and merchants to trade goods and products to others, along with different ideas and knowledge. 

What is the silk road?

200
This was the class system of Europe during the Medieval Era.
What is feudalism?
200
A city that is politically independent and the rural area around it.
What is a city-state?
200

This limited the spread of ideas by using majority of its resources to protect their land from invaders

What is war?

200

This idea emphasized the value of human achievement, education, and importance of classical literature

What is humanism?

200

This area dealt with ideas like the fact that the earth is a planet that moves around the sun, planets travel in an elliptical orbit and the world is a sun centered universe.

What is astronomy?

300
Labor shortages created by this allowed many serfs to gain independence and sped the replacement of labor with money as a way to pay rent.
What is the Black Plague?
300

This was the mission to reclaim the holy land

What is the Crusades?

300
This invention by Guttenberg increased literacy rates and helped ideas like those of Martin Luther and Galileo spread quickly.
What is the printing press?
300

The people during the Renaissance saw that the church was not doing people right, so they wanted to make changes. Martin Luther contributed to this event.

What is the Protestant Reformation??

300
This is the process of making observations, experimenting, and drawing conclusions based on evidence.
What is the scientific method?
400

This was the time period before the Renaissance, where individuals were not as smart and economy was on a decline

What is the Dark Ages?

400

The process of moving from the country to city side

What is Urbanization?

400

This limited the spread of ideas by limiting the movement within a social structure

What is feudalism?

400

This idea involved collecting goods and using them to make products.

What is consumerism?

400
These people became like celebrities, signed their work and made some money. Also, patrons paid for works of art to promote them.
What are artists?
500
This is the term for the documents sold in exchange for firgiving someone of their sins. They were sold by the Catholic Church.
What are indulgences?
500

The religion of the Jewish people, based on a belief in one God, as told in the Hebrew bible and the teaching of rabbis

What is the Judaism?

500

These people gave money to artist and scientists for their work that developed new ideas

Who are Patrons?

500

1.Human beings can use the power of reason. 2.It is important for a person to have an open, curious and questioning mind. 3.People can achieve great things through learning. 4.Individuals should gain skills in many different areas by developing mind, body and spirit. The above are beliefs that describe this way of thought put out by scholars during the renaissance.

What is humanism?

500

As trade and commerce grew in renaissance Europe, knowledge of this became essential for members of the merchant class.

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