Chapter 20 Sections 1&2

Question 1

A renewal of interest in Greek and Roman culture and arts

Answer 1

Renaissance

Question 2

related to worldly things

Answer 2

Secular

Question 3

Belief in the worth of the individual and that reason is the path of knowledge

Answer 3

Humanism

Question 4

The everyday language of the people in a certain region

Answer 4

Vernacular

Question 5

relating to a town or city

Answer 5

Urban

Question 6

A soldier who fights for money rather that loyalty to a country

Answer 6

Mercenary

Question 7

the art of making peaceful agreements with other countries

Answer 7

Diplomacy

Question 8

The ruler of an Italian city-state

Answer 8

Doge

Question 9

A leading family in Florence during the Renaissance

Answer 9

Medici

Question 10

Scholar who studied Roman writers such as Cicero

Answer 10

Petrarch

Question 11

What three types of plays did English playwright William Skakespeare write?

Answer 11

comedies
tragedies
histories

Question 12

What are two plays that English playwright William Skakespeare wrote?

Answer 12

Hamlet

Juliet.

Question 13

During the Renaissance there was a rebirth in interest in _____.

Answer 13

art and learning