Renaissance Vocab
Renaissance Trivia
Italian Renaissance
Northern Europe Renaissance
Rise of the Merchant Class
100
An intellectual movement that focuses on human potential and achievements.
What is Humanism?
100
Location where the Renaissance began.
What is Italy?
100
The Late Middle Ages was a time of plague and war. Those who survived wanted to...
What is celebrate life and the human experience?
100
This was used to create hundreds of copies of books faster and cheaper.
What is the Gutenberg Printing Press (or machine with movable type.)
100
An example of a difference between the Early Middle Ages and the Late Middle Ages.
What is manor life v growth of towns and trade, self sufficiency with most individuals (90%) farming v. shift of population from farming jobs into jobs in towns and cities, very little to no coin money v banking.
200
Worldly rather than spiritual
What is Secular?
200
True or False answer to the question, the invention of the printing press allowed books to become more controlled by the church?
What is false?Instead the printing press allowed books to become more affordable and increased the spread of many different ideas.
200
Daily Double!! What conditions allowed Italy to be the birthplace of the Renaissance? (3 part answer!)
1.) A wealthy merchant class 2.)Trade increased the exchange of ideas 3.)Classical heritage of Greece and Rome
200
The full sized book printed.
What is the Bible?
200
Definition and example of a guild.
What is an organization in the same business or occupation working to improve the conditions of its members. Bakers organizing themselves and making the business of bread more profitable.
300
Church leaders and wealthy merchants who funded artists
What is Patrons of Art?
300
Daily Double!! Three basic rights granted by the Magna Carta.
What is Jury Trial (trial by peers,) no taxation without representation, and limits to power?
300
A Renaissance man was expected to...
What is master all areas of study?
300
Reasons the printing press was important to Renaissance society.
What is knowledge became more available.
300
Definition of a Jury system.
What is a trial by your peers.
400
Model for a perfect society
What is Utopia?
400
Definition of Perspective?
What is an art technique that shows three dimensions on a flat surface(creating an optical illusion)?
400
A Renaissance woman was expected to...
What is know the classics and be charming, but not to create art or take part in politics.
400
Four changes the Renaissance made to European life?
What is the church lost power as individuals questioned its authority, art was embraced, increase of democratic ideals, and books became more affordable.
400
Definition of Common Law.
What is law system of all English speaking countries- including the U.S.
500
Use of the native language rather than Latin?
What is Vernacular?
500
Two examples of how the development of the merchant class/middle class impacts your life today.
What is minimum wage? regulations on working conditions? town charters? jury by trial? limits to power? no taxation without representation?
500
The Renaissance belief in the dignity of an individual played a role in the gradual rise in _________ ideals.
What is democratic?
500
A way in which the invention of the printing press and the invention of the internet are similar.
What is both inventions made information more accessible?
500
Three basic political rights granted by the Magna Carta.
What is limits to power (King is not above the law,) No taxation without representation (cannot tax a group without a representative from that group having a say,) right to a jury trail.