| Term | Definition |
|---|
| witnessed the emergence of a new faith in human efforts and achievment | renaissance |
| people thought of life as short and full of sufferings | pessimistic |
| sluggish,inactive,not progressing | stagnation |
| somthing renaissance people embraced wholeheartedly | optimistic |
| a clever use of somthing | innovation |
| a correct relation among parts | proportion |
| giving the appearence of distance on a flat surface | perspective |
| a term traditionally used to describe a person who is skilled in many areas | renaissance man |
| Antwerp, Amsterdam, London | the northern renaissance |
| could copie thousands of one book in the time it took to make one single copie | printing technology |
| an artist who engraves a picture onto a metal plate, and uses this plate as a stamp | etcher |
| an artist who craves a picture onto a wood block, and uses it as a stamp | woodcutter |
| drawing conclusion from physical evidence | empirical reasoning |
| science began to seperate from religon | scientic revolution |
| placed the earth at the center of the universe | ptolemaic system |
| looking glass made to make small thing look bigger | kijkglas |
| an extremly pure refined substance once thought to occupy the upper regions of space | ether |
| a church court that tried heretics people who disagreed with church teachings | inquisition |
| "nevertheless, it does move | E pur si muove |
| medival world:had been built around the closed system of the mnor and the castle Renaissance:towns in southern europe had grown termendously in both size and influence, wealthy people had more leisure time and more money | compare the medival world veiw to the renaissance. |
| first, it was the heartland of the old roman empire. most of italy still used roman law therefore the problems of combinding the medival law with the roman legal code didnt excist in italy. italy's clear legal code made buissness and trade between differnet regions much easier | describe why italy was ideal place for a renaissance |
| a city-state is a city that is surrounded by rual areas. because they had there own goverenment and armed forces | what is a city state?how does it manage to avoid becoming part of larger kingdoms |
| a renaissance man is a person how is skilled in many areas | describe what a renaissance man is? |
| leo:never recieved a classicall education, painted the mona lisa and the ginevra de benci, was an Italian polymath, scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, painter, sculptor, architect, botanist, musician and writer. Micheal: carved the david out of odd shape marble, on of the greatest artists of the high renaissance, famous for his fresco painting on the sistine chapel in rome | who was leonardo da vinci and michealangelo an list a few of their accompishments. |
| artemisia gentileschi further womens plights by acheiving fame and idependence though art | how did artemisa gentileschi further womens plight of equality |
| the printing press changed society change society by allowing authors to make many copies of a book and many people got to have a book so knowlegde travled around the world more easliy | how did the printing press change society |
| it had to be written down by the author and copied by a team of scribes who worked at the same time on different parts of the book | explain the process of a book to be written |
| southern: closely copy of of classical era, it honored simplicity and human dimenction northern: manifested material wealth of the region | difference between northern and southern renaissacne art |
| R.V.R would take the expolration of light and shadow to its peak, stressing non-religous themes | what significant development did rembrandt make |
| because it went agains the churchs teaching | why was the scientific revilution so dangerous |
| tycho brahe proved that the heavens change over time, francis bacon promoted empircal reasoning, johannes kelper proved that the planets orbits were elliptical, rene newton furtherd develped geometry, isaac newton develpoted mathmatcial reasoning and discoiverd the law of gravity | list 5 scientics accompishments of the renaissance |
| the revolutionary theory that the earth is not the center of the universe | what did copernicus state |
| galileo had to accept the churchs on earth, the moon was solid and scared , the sun was the center of the solar system, and the earth travels around the sun | what did the inquisition order galilio to do? list 3 discoveries |
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