the Renaissance Word Scramble
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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 |
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