The Renaissance
General time period that the term Renaissance references.
What was circa 1300-1600 CE?
A recognized group(s) within Christianity.
What is a denomination(s)?
Italian city that was the center of the papacy (except for a time when there was a pope in France..).
What is Rome?
The everyday, spoken language of a people.
What is the vernacular?
One who uses their wealth to support the arts, sciences, technology, or other advancements and forms of education
What is a patron?
Where was China?
The wealth of the Italian city-states derived from banking and this occupation.
Who were merchants?
Cash, liquid assets or property that has value.
What is capital?
Northern Italian city-state that was a center of Renaissance art, banking and politics, largely funded by the Medici family, who were wealthy bankers.
What is Florence?
A formal split apart.
What is a schism?
Leadership or dominance, especially by one country or social group over others.
What is hegemony?
Before printing presses, this was where books were copied by hand, by monks.
Where were monasteries?
The vast majority of people in the late middle ages and Renaissance modern period (1300-1600 ish) were this social class.
Who were peasants?
A company, investment, business with multiple investors capital ($$$) that is pooled together to finance exploration and trade globally.
What is a joint-stock company?
16th century Pope Sixtus V made it his mission to rebuild the aqueducts to bring water back to this city, as well as to make it safe from murderous bandits that roamed the city streets. He had them rounded up and executed. People moved back.
Where is Rome?
A medieval association of craftsmen or merchants, often having considerable power.
What is a guild?
Belief in the benefits of profitable trading; commercialism.; in the 16th-18th century this also was the belief and practice that governments should offer protection and investment in foreign trade and colonies.
What is mercantilism?
The Gutenberg Bible was first printed in this language.
What is German?
Sienna's population was decreased by up to 60% due to the Black Death in 1348, which was a huge bummer because they had recently defeated this rival city-state, that would lose close to 50% of its population in 1351.
What was Florence?
To change.
What is reform?
A public square of an Italian town or city.
What is a piazza?
A Renaissance doctrine, attitude, or way of life centered on human interests or values
especially a philosophy that usually rejects supernaturalism and stresses an individual's dignity and worth and capacity for self-realization through reason. A focus on being well rounded and educated in a variety of topics that are secular.
What was Humanism?
Having or showing a willingness to act dishonestly in return for money or personal gain.
What is corrupt?
This would increase among populations that lived in locations where there were more printing presses.
What is literacy?
Renaissance artists, engineers and architects were also utilized to work in this field.
What was military protection and technology?
To be kicked out the church.
What is excommunication?
King Charles VIII from this nation invaded the Italian city-states from the north with their canons.
Where is France?
When a tax, bill or debt is paid through the exchange of goods, commodities or services instead of money.
What is payment in kind?
The obelisk originally that was transported into the Vatican in front of St. Peter's Basilica was originally from this place and taken as a war trophy by the ancient Romans.
Where is Egypt?
What was it became a bestseller and was widely printed, translated and distributed across Europe.