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World History Ch 12
World History CP Chapter 12, Sections 1 & 2
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Urban society (p.375) | a system in which cities are the center of political, economic and social life. |
| Secular (p.375) | worldly |
| Mercenary (p.377) | a soldier who sells his services to the highest bidder |
| Dowry (p.381) | a gift of money or property paid at the time of marriage by the bride's parents to her husband |
| Leonardo da Vinci | a painter, sculptor, architect, inventor, and mathematician |
| Niccolo Machiavelli | was among the first to abandon morality as the basis for analyzing political activity. He wrote The Prince, which is one of the most influential works on political power in the Western world. |
| Describe the characteristics of the Italian Renaissance. | urban society, age of recovery from the plague, political instability, and a decline of the church power. Rebirth of interest in ancient culture. Emphasis on individual ability, a high regard for human worth. |
| What did Machiavelli say about a ruler’s attitude towards power? (p.379) | believed prince's attitude toward power must be based on understanding of human nature, which was basically self-centered. Political activity shouldn't be restricted by moral principles. prince acts on behalf of the state & must let his conscience sleep |
| humanism (p.382) | an intellectual movement of the Renaissance based on the study of the humanities, which included grammar, rhetoric, poetry, moral philosophy, and history. |
| fresco (p.384) | a painting done on fresh, wet plaster with water-based paints |
| Michelangelo | an accomplished painter, sculptor, and architect, was another artistic master of the High Renaissance. |
| Jan Van Eyck | was among one of the first to use oil paint, which enabled the artist to use a wide variety of colors and create fine details |
| Albert Durer | a German artist who was greatly affected by the Italians. He made two trips to Italy and absorbed most of what the Italians could teach on the laws of perspective. |
| Describe education in the Renaissance. | believed education could profoundly change people; liberal arts to produce individuals who follow a path of virtue & wisdom: students study history, moral philosophy,eloquence(rhetoric), letters(grammar, logic), poetry, mathematics, astronomy, & music. |
| How did the Renaissance paintings differ from the medieval paintings? | In medieval paintings humans looked flat and in Renaissance paintings human figures had depth and came "alive" or or looked realistic. In Renaissance, Masaccio discovered and mastered laws of perspective to create the illusion of three dimensions. |
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