Vocabulary
An economic system that depends on making a profit.
What is a Capitalist Society?
What did the Renaissance focus on in relation to it's art?
What is beauty/the human?
Artists help spread Humanism and the ideas of the Renaissance by (three)...
travelling more, sharing ideas and developing better techniques.
Usually not allowed to be educated, especially after marriage
What is Renaissance women?
He gave us a style of writing we can now call an essay.
Who is Michel do Montaigne?
A system of thought that centres on humans.
What is Humanism?
The reasons the Renaissance ideas were slow to spread to Northern Europe were (four)...
Humanism spread by...
scholars and philosophers travelling from one university to another to study and teach spreading Humanism.
This person discovered that the planets revolve around the sun.
Who is Nicolaus Copernicus?
She was a very educated woman who was also sister to the king of France.
Who is Marguerite de Navarre?
A perfect world.
What is Utopia?
The printing press helped ideas spread by...
Making books more accessible causing more people learning to read and write.
Renaissance Humanism challenged the worldview of the Middle Ages by...
focusing less on the afterlife (Heaven) and more on the beautiful life humans were having on Earth.
Dissected human remains and made detailed drawings.
Who is Leonardo da Vinci?
He painted the Sistine Chapel ceiling and frescos.
Who is Michelangelo Buonarroti?
Having to do with physical things; opposite of spiritual.
What is Secular?
The reason Renaissance ideas spread more quickly because...
The Hundred Years war between France and England ended and travel became safer which meant ideas travelled easier as well.
Classical writing lead to humanism by...
suggesting that life on Earth, during humans lifetimes, had value.
Wrote plays that were enjoyed by all classes especially the lower classes.
Who is Shakespeare?
The first printed book.
What is the Guttenberg Bible?
The art of persuasive writing and arguing.
What is rhetoric?
The four main reasons why Renaissance ideas didn’t spread to western and northern Europe were:
Humanism focused on (there are four)...
A person's individual worth, values, abilities, and society striving to be better.
He made great advancements in education in England.
Who is Thomas More?
What were the controversies with the first printed book?
It didn't look as nice, the church did not want people reading the Bible in their own languages.