Important Terms

Question 1

Humanism

Answer 1

An Intellectual movement at the heart of the Renaissance that focused on education and classics

Question 2

Humanities

Answer 2

Study of subjects such as grammar, rhetoric, poetry, and history, that were taught in Ancient Greece and Rome

Question 3

Vernacular

Answer 3

Every day languages of regular people

Question 4

Perspective

Answer 4

Artistic techniques used to give paintings and drawings a three-dimensional effect

Question 5

Patron

Answer 5

A person who provides financial support for the arts

Question 6

Engraving

Answer 6

Artist edges a design on a metal plate with acid

Question 7

Utopian

Answer 7

Idealistic or visionary, usually used to describe a perfect society

Question 8

Indulgences

Answer 8

In Roman catholic churches, pardons for sins committed during a person’s lifetime

Question 9

Diet

Answer 9

Assembly or legislature

Question 10

Predestination

Answer 10

Calvinist believe that God along ago determined who would gain salvation

Question 11

Theocracy

Answer 11

Government run by religious leaders

Question 12

Recant

Answer 12

Say that one no longer holds an opinion or belief, one considered heretical

Question 13

Annul

Answer 13

Declaire invalid, official agreement, decision

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Sect

Answer 14

A subgroup of a major religious group

Question 15

Canonize

Answer 15

Recognise a person as a saint

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Compromise

Answer 16

An agreement in which both sides agree in the middle

Question 17

Ghetto

Answer 17

Separate section of the city where members of a minority group are forced to live

Question 18

Council of Trent

Answer 18

Embodiment of the counter reformation