BMMS 7history Renaissance
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| Silk Road | A 5,000 mile long ancient trade route that connected Europe to China.
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| Humanism | A way of thought that focuses on human beings and their potential for achievement.
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| Petrarch | Italian poet who helped reintroduce the works of classical writers, called the "Father of Humanism"
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| long-bow | A weapon used in the Hundred Years’ War that made hand to hand fighting used by knights obsolete
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| classical learning | Study of ancient Greek and Roman texts
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| Renaissance | A movement of great creativity in art, writing, and thought. The term means “rebirth”.
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| patron | A person who encourages artists and supports them financially
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| perspective | Technique that produces the appearance of three dimensions, depth and distance, on a flat surface
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| Leonardo da Vinci | Italian artist who also excelled in astronomy, geometry, and anatomy. He is famous for painting the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper.
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| Michelangelo | Renaissance artist who sculpted the statue Moses and painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in Rome.
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| Florence | One of the most important and influential cities of the early Renaissance.
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| William Shakespeare | The most famous English writer of the Renaissance, author of Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet.
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| Elizabethan Age | The period between 1558 and 1603 when Queen Elizabeth I ruled England. She heavily supported the arts.
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| Johann(es) Gutenberg | German printer who invented the printing press
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| printing press | An invention/machine that pressed paper against a tray of movable type to print pages
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| vernacular | A person’s native language
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| secular | nonreligious
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| cartography | the study of maps and map-making
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| Medici | a prominent, wealthy and powerful banking family in Florence who used their wealth to encourage and support the arts
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| Renaissance Man | someone who excels in many things, having a wide variety of skills and knowledge
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