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Unit 7 Renaissance
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Interest | A fee that borrowers pay for the use of someone else’s money, usually a certain percentage of the loan |
| Renaissance | the period of rebirth and creativity that followed Europe’s Middle Ages. |
| Humanism | the study of history, literature, public speaking and art that led to a new way of thinking in Europe in the late 1300s. |
| Perspective | a method of showing a three dimensional scene on a flat surface so that it looks real. |
| Christian Humanism | a combination of Religious and Humanist ideas |
| Marco Polo | Italian Trader. He travelled to China and later wrote about his experiences. |
| Cosimo de Medici | Italian Banker and Leader of Florence. His actions helped bring about the Renaissance. |
| Petrarch | Early Italian Renaissance Scholar. He wrote about the importance of knowing history. |
| Michelangelo | Italian Renaissance Artist. He designed buildings, wrote poetry and created sculptures and paintings. |
| Leonardo da’ Vinci | Genius of the Renaissance. He was a painter, sculptor, inventor, engineer, town planner, and mapmaker. |
| Johann Gutenberg | German printer. He developed a printing press using movable type. |
| William Shakespeare | English Renaissance writer and playwright. He is considered by many to be the greatest English writer of all time. |