Renaissance Live Chat and Podcast
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gac8276 on December 6, 2009
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this is from the renaissance live chat if you missed it :) also from the podcast
vocab, short answer, discussion questions
15 vocab, mixture of terms, names of people, and works that were completed by people
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48 terms
Galician | English |
|---|---|
| Humanities |  ancient subjects that during the renaissance people had an interest in studying again; includes rhetoric, history, literature and poetry |
| Annul | cancels a marriage like it never existed |
| Vernacular | the common, everyday language that is used instead of latin |
| Heliocentric | the sun-centered model of our solar system |
| City-State | a city with its surrounding territory that acts independently like its own country or state |
| Heresy | claims or criticisms that go against the church |
| Heretic | someone who is guilty of heresy |
| Excommunicate | to be banished from the church; to be no longer welcomed |
| Perspective | a technique that brings distance into paintings or drawings |
| Theology | study of religion and God |
| Theocracy | a type of government where the church leaders run the government |
| Patron | a financial supporter of the arts |
| Engravings | carvings or designs placed in metal |
| Utopia | the perfect, ideal place that was written by Thomas Moore |
| Utopian | a person or quality about a person, searching for perfection |
| Indulgences | being forgiven from sin |
| Predestination | when God choses whether a person goes to heaven or hell before they are born |
| Humanism | an intellectual movement that focuses on the secular world |
| Who preached the idea of Predestination? | John Calvin |
| Justification by Faith | means that faith and faith alone will get you into heaven; Luther believed this |
| Papal Supremacy | believing that the Pope was the most powerful and important person that there was under God |
| Act of Supremacy | Henry VIII breaks from the Catholic Church and established the Church of England which he was the head of |
| "The end justifies the means" | it doesn't matter how you reach your goal as long as you reach it |
| Scientific Method | a step by step process based on observations and experimentation; repetition is the most important step |
| Isaac Newton | he proves everyone correct, Galileo, Bacon, Descartes, Kepler, Copernicus, and Brahe; proved the 'Laws of gravity' |
| The Prince | a guide to gaining and maintaining power; written by Niccolo Machiavelli |
| Albrecht Durer | famous for his engravings; known as the "German Leonardo" b/c he studied Leonardo; famous for his self portraits - made himself look like Jesus |
| The Institutes of the Christian Religion | the book that Calvin writes and is about how to set up a good protestant church |
| Francis Bacon | The scientist who contributes the observation and experimentation steps |
| Don Quixote | a character that mocks chivalry and was written by Miquel de Cervantes |
| Rene Descartes | Added the idea of human reasoning or analyze; wrote "I think therefore I am" |
| Recant | to take back your beliefs |
| Renaissance | Era of time during the 1300s to the 1500s where culture and arts flourished |
| renaissance | a french word meaning rebirth or revival of culture and learning |
| Secular | the world outside of religion |
| The Book of the Courtier | written by Castiglione; a code of conduct for the courtier; writes about the ideal man and woman |
| Scapegoat | a person who is blamed for the wrongdoings, mistakes, or faults of |
| Ghettos | a part of a city, esp. a slum area, occupied by a minority group or groups |
| Ignatius of Loyola | first leader under Pope Paul III |
| Copernicus | came up with the heliocentric model or theory |
| Galileo | uses the telescope to further support Copernicus's theory; got in most trouble with the church; had to recant his beliefs |
| Three Geniuses | Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, and Raphael Sanzio |
| Leonardo da Vinci | famous for his notebooks; remembered as an artist although that was the least of what he did; an inventor, artist, and medical examiner; studied the human anatomy by doing human autopsies |
| Michelangelo | sculptor and artist; painted the Sistine Chapel's ceiling; sculpted the statue of David and Cieta; designed the dome for St Peter's Cathedral in Vatican City |
| Miquel de Cervantes | wrote Don Quixote and it mocks chivalry |
| Niccolo Machiavelli | mostly remembered for writing about government; wrote the book "The Prince" which is a guide on how to gain and maintain power |
| Castiglione | wrote "The Book of the Courtier" which was a code of conduct for the courtier; writes about the idea man and woman |
| Raphael Sanzio | mostly remembered for his painting of the Madonna or mother of Jesus |
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