Europe Vocabulary

Question 1

Renaissance

Answer 1

Derived from the French word meaning ‘rebirth’.

Question 2

Milan

Answer 2

A common Slavic male name and, less commonly, an Roman and Indian name.

Question 3

Venice

Answer 3

A city in northeastern Italy and the capital of the Veneto region.

Question 4

Florence

Answer 4

An English given name for girls.

Question 5

Rome

Answer 5

The name Rome is a Biblical baby name. In Biblical the meaning of the name Rome is: Strength, power’.

Question 6

Medici Family

Answer 6

The richest family in the world and still is too.

Question 7

Humanism

Answer 7

An outlook or system of thought attaching prime importance to human rather than divine or supernatural matters.

Question 8

Machiavelli

Answer 8

The employment of cunning and duplicity in statecraft or in general conduct.

Question 9

Perspective

Answer 9

The art of drawing solid objects on a two-dimensional surface so as to give the right impression of their height, width, depth, and position in relation to each other when viewed from a particular point.

Question 10

Gutenberg

Answer 10

German printer who was the first in Europe to print using movable type and the first to use a press.

Question 11

Erasmus

Answer 11

Beloved

Question 12

William Shakespeare

Answer 12

An English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world’s pre-eminent dramatist.

Question 13

Sir Thomas More

Answer 13

An English lawyer, social philosopher, author, statesman and noted Renaissance humanist.

Question 14

Flemish

Answer 14

The Dutch language as spoken in Flanders, one of the two official languages of Belgium.

Question 15

Michelangelo

Answer 15

An Italian sculptor, painter, architect, and poet of the High Renaissance who exerted an unparalleled influence on the development of Western art.

Question 16

John Van Eyck

Answer 16

An Early Netherlandish painter active in Bruges and one of the most significant Northern Renaissance artists of the 15th century.

Question 17

Albert Durer

Answer 17

A painter, printmaker, and theorist of the German Renaissance.

Question 18

Fresco

Answer 18

A painting done rapidly in watercolor on wet plaster on a wall or ceiling, so that the colors penetrate the plaster and become fixed as it dries.

Question 19

Indulgences

Answer 19

The action or fact of indulging.

Question 20

Predestination

Answer 20

The divine foreordaining of all that will happen, especially with regard to the salvation of some and not others. It has been particularly associated with the teachings of St. Augustine of Hippo and of Calvin.

Question 21

Reformation

Answer 21

The action or process of reforming an institution or practice.