Feudalism
What is a Vassal?
Rather than landownership, the Renaissance focused on this activity as a way to become wealthy.
What is trade?
These pieces of paper enabled people to avoid getting lost.
What are maps?
The English king who signed the Magna Carta.
Who was John Lackland?
This was the idea that every person is free to choose their own destiny.
What is individualism?
This person works on a noble's land but cannot leave.
What is a serf / peasant?
Prior to the Renaissance, this event weakened feudalism by increasing the value of peasant labor.
What is the Black Death / Plague?
A person with a career in mapmaking
What is a cartographer?
In The Prince, this man loved being feared.
Who is Machiavelli?
This was the main form of education during the Middle Ages (feudalism).
What is scholasticism?
This was the main source of wealth in feudal Europe.
What is land?
This idea stated that there was separation between church and government authority.
What is secularism?
The leading thinker of the middle ages, now a well-known saint.
Who is St. Thomas Aquinas?
This was the sculptor of the famous David.
Who is Michaelangelo?
Under feudalism, a noble lord and his serfs lived here.
What is the manor?
This document was signed in 1215 to guarantee certain rights to nobles.
What is the Magna Carta?
The social class of city-dwellers who most appreciated the changes brought by the Renaissance.
What is a burgher?
Before the printing press, the job of writing and producing copies of books was known as this.
What is a scribe?
The most well-known Renaissance artist, embodying the ideals of humanism.
Who is Leonardo da Vinci?
This was the idea that the human mind can make objective observations based on facts and evidence.
What is rationalism?
This was the source of a king's authority.
What is the Church / God?
Due to its connections to sea-trade, the Renaissance began in this area.
What is Italy?
A Gothic architectural feature that supported the walls with an exterior support beam.
What is a flying buttress?
The French duke of Normandy who conquered England in 1066, establishing a feudal Kingdom.
Who is William the Conqueror?
This was the idea that a person's individual talents should be developed as well as possible.
What is virtu?