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Renaissance Vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| humanism | belief in the worth of the individual |
| Thomas Aquinas | great thinker of the Middle Ages; worked to reconcile Christian thought and Greek philosophy |
| Renaissance | means "re-birth" of interest in classical cultures; led to far-reaching changes in art, learning, and views of the world |
| secular | concerned with worldly rather than spiritual matters |
| Petrarch | Father of the Renaissance and Humanism |
| Medici | banking family who controlled Florence for almost 300 years |
| city-state | self-ruling state consisting of a city and its surrounding territory |
| money-based economy | receiving money as payment for goods and services |
| Florence | birthplace of the Renaissance |
| dialect | version of a language; Renaissance authors used this to make literature more important and popular |
| classical | related to the culture of ancient Greece and Rome |
| Venice, Italy | City that controlled important trade routes to the East; canals served as the streets |
| Marco Polo | Venetian merchant and traveler; his accounts of this travels to China offered Europeans a firsthand view of Asian lands and stimulated interest in Asian trade |
| Sistine Chapel | a Catholic church in Vatican City, Italy; its ceiling was painted by the Renaissance artist Michelangelo |
| Leonardo Da Vinci | a well known Italian Renaissance artist, architect, musician, engineer and scientist |
| Gutenberg | German printer who was the first in Europe to print using movable type and the first to use a printing press |
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