The Renaissance
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World Adventures in Time, CH12 Lesson4
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 What increased throughout northern Italy around 1350 | enthusiasm for art, literature and trade |
| What does Renaissance mean? | rebirth |
| Of what was the time period known as the Reneissance a rebirth? | The classical periods of Greece and Rome |
| What is HUMANISM? | concern with human interests and values |
| During the Renaissance, where were people's thoughts often turned? | To heaven, but their thoughts increasingly focused on what people could achieve in this world |
| To what city did change first come during the Renaissance? | Florence, Italy, which, by 1400, had become one of the reichest cities in Europe |
| Where did traders from Florence journey? | To towns in France and the ports on the Black Sea, Asia and Africa |
| What product was produced in great quantity in Florence? | woolen cloth |
| Who was a famous patron of the arts in Florence? | Lorenzo Medici |
| How did the Medicis gain great wealth? | Through banking and trading |
| What Lorenzo Medici's reputation only good? | No, some considered him a tyrant. |
| What another word for a patron? | a supporter, typically of the arts |
| What was Lorenzo Medici known as, and why? | Lorenzo the Magnificent, because his patronage of the arts attracted scholars and artists to Florence |
| What example of classical culture did the humanists find? | manuscripts, coins and stutues from Greek and Roman culture |
| One of the earliest Italian humanists to study classics | Petrarch, who loved learning, and became the most clebrated poet of all Europe |
| One of the greatest Renaissance artists | Michelangelo |
| What did Michelangelo used in his painting? | classical ideas, such as balance of form |
| Besides pianter, sculptor and architect, what else was Leonardo da Vinci? | He was also a scientist, engineer and musician |
| Where did Leonardo's father take him when he turned 15, and why? | Florence, to study with the greatest painter in Europe, who stopped painting after teaching Leonardo |
| Who became Leonardo da Vinci's patron? | Lorenzo Medici |
| How did Leonardo write, and why? | He wrote backwards, to keep his ideas secret |
| For what items did Leonardo make plans? | Submarine, flying machine, machine gun, and parachute, among others. In fact, his work inspired future inventors, hundreds of years later. |
| Who was a famous polish astronomer? | Nicolaus Copernicus |
| What discovery did Copernicus make in 1514? | That the earth revolved around the sun, once a year. |
| What was the name of Copernicus' book which was published after his death? | On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres |
| Why were the findings of Copernicus revolutionary? | They went against church teachings, which maintained that the Earth was the center of the universe |
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