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Renaissance Review
Renaissance Gillespie
Question | Answer |
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Humanism | the belief in the self-worth of each individual |
Where did the Renaissance begin? | Italian city-states (Genoa, Florence, Venice, etc.) |
Why did the Renaissance begin in Italy? | *served as trading/distribution centers of goods coming from the Middle East to Europe *independent city-states that were governed as republics |
What does the term Renaissance refer to? | Rebirth of Roman and Greek culture |
usury | charging interest on money loaned |
How did the economy change during the Renaissance? | increased trade led to banking (including usury and letters of credit), money-based economy, mercantile practices, |
Classicism | return to the ideals of Greek and Roman intellectual thought--apparent in art, literature, architecture |
Flanders | modern-day Belgium, home of the Northern Renaissance; important trading center |
How did the Northern Renaissance differ from the Italian Renaissance? | Northern humanists blended the ideas of humanism with Catholicism leading to a new way of looking at religion |
What was the impact of the invention of the movable type printing press? | allowed for ideas to be spread more quickly and cheaper (more efficient); increased the access to literature and the Bible to the masses |
Dissemination | spreading |
Secular | worldly--non-religious |