Chapter 15 Vocab Words

Question 1

Urban

Answer 1

City-like, having to do with being more centralized and populated, what much of Italy was like

Question 2

Renaissance

Answer 2

The rebirth of “classical” knowledge, meaning Ancient Greek and Roman culture

Question 3

Merchants

Answer 3

Traders who traveled by ship carrying and selling goods in places away from their home port

Question 4

Monarchical State

Answer 4

A state ruled by a monarchy, meaning it’s ruled by leaders who’s power is passed down through family lineage

Question 5

Papal States

Answer 5

Territories of Italy reigned by the Catholic Church, centered around Rome

Question 6

Florence

Answer 6

republic, dominated N. Italy + Tuscany, major city-state, Medici family’s rule over Florence encouraged artistic expression (part of Renaissance), cultural center of Italy

Question 7

Usury

Answer 7

charging borrowers a fee on money loaned to them

Question 8

Secularism

Answer 8

separation of state from Church (Italy from Catholic Church)

Question 9

Humanism

Answer 9

the study of classical (Ancient Greek and roman) ideas and culture, study of grammar, rhetoric, poetry, moral philosophy, and history

Question 10

Vernacular

Answer 10

The local spoken language of a scholar

Question 11

Michelangelo

Answer 11

painter, sculptor, and architect during High Renaissance period, painted ceiling of Sistine Chapel, sculpted statue of David