The Italian Renaissance
This city is considered the birthplace of the Renaissance.
What is Florence?
The shift of depicting more normal everyday occurrences in art like peasants, or life on a farm.
What is Naturalism
This explorer was the first to sail from Europe to India around the Cape of Good Hope.
Who is Vasco da Gama?
Renaissance art often featured this technique to create depth and perspective.
What is linear perspective?
He painted the Mona Lisa and was considered a true "Renaissance Man."
Who is Leonardo da Vinci?
He painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.
Who is Michelangelo?
The most famous work of Thomas More, describing an ideal society.
What is Utopia?
Sponsored by Spain, he reached the Americas in 1492.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
This author’s The Book of the Courtier explained how to be the perfect Renaissance noble.
Who is Baldassare Castiglione?
This astronomer challenged geocentrism with his heliocentric model.
Who is Copernicus?
This wealthy family were powerful patrons of the arts in Florence
Who are the Medici?
This invention helped spread Renaissance and Reformation ideas across Europe
What is the printing press?
This treaty divided the non-European world between Spain and Portugal.
What is the Treaty of Tordesillas?
Renaissance artists and thinkers often looked back to these two ancient civilizations.
What are Greece and Rome?
Renaissance thinkers revived this classical approach to education and civic virtue.
What is civic humanism?
He wrote The Prince, a political treatise about power and leadership.
Who is Niccolò Machiavelli?
He was a Dutch Christian humanist who wrote In Praise of Folly.
Who is Erasmus?
This economic policy aimed at increasing national wealth through a favorable balance of trade.
What is mercantilism?
During the Renaissance, most people still lived and worked in these areas.
What are rural areas or the countryside?
This term refers to the spread of Renaissance ideas beyond Italy.
What is the Northern Renaissance?
This philosophy emphasized human potential and achievements, influencing Renaissance thought.
What is humanism?
Unlike the Italian Renaissance, the Northern Renaissance focused more on this subject.
What is religious reform?
This system allowed Spanish colonists to demand labor or tribute from Native Americans.
What is the encomienda system?
This practice, buying positions in the Church, contributed to calls for reform.
What is simony?
He argued that rulers should do whatever is necessary to maintain power, famously stating "the end justifies the means."
Who is Machiavelli?