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