Module 8

Question 1

Vernacular

Answer 1

Everyday language of people in a region or country

Question 2

Utopia

Answer 2

An imaginary land described by Thomas More in his book Utopia - hence a ideal and perfect place

Question 3

Skepticism

Answer 3

A philosophy based on the idea that nothing can be known for certain

Question 4

Colony

Answer 4

A land controlled by another nation

Question 5

Conquistadors

Answer 5

The Spanish soldiers and fortune hunters who took part in the conquest of the Americas in the 16th century

Question 6

Renaissance

Answer 6

A period of European history lasting from abt 1300 to 1600 during which renewed interest in classical culture led to far reaching changes in art and views of the world

Question 7

Humanism

Answer 7

Renaissance intellectual movement in which thinkers studied classical texts and focused on human potential and achievements

Question 8

Secular

Answer 8

Concerned with worldly rather than spiritual matters

Question 9

Patrons

Answer 9

A person who supports artist especially financially

Question 10

Perspective

Answer 10

An artistic technique that creates the appearance of three dimensions j a flat surface

Question 11

Columbian exchange

Answer 11

The global transfer of plants animals and diseases that occurred during the European colonizations of the Americas

Question 12

Triangular Trade

Answer 12

The transatlantic trading network along which slaves and other goods were carried between Africa, England, English Europe, the West Indies, and the colonies in the Americas

Question 13

Middle passage

Answer 13

The voyage that brought captured Africans to the West Indies and later to the North and South America to be sold as slaves so called because it was considers the middle leg of the triangular trade

Question 14

Atlantic slave trade

Answer 14

The buying, transporting, and selling of Africans to work in the Americas