Renaissance vocab

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Renaissance

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A great flowering of culture, based on classical Greek and Roman ideas and art, that began in Italy in the Late Middle Ages and spread throughout Europe

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Humanism

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A philosophy that tries to balance religious faith with an emphasis on individual dignity and an interest in nature and human society

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Individualism

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The belief in the importance of the individual as opposed to the larger community

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Secularism

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The view that religion need not be the center of human affairs; relating to earthly life rather than to religious or spiritual matters

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Vernacular

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Everyday spoken language

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Commerce

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The buying and selling of goods; business

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City State

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An independent state consisting of a city and its surrounding territory

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Patrons

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Someone who gives money or other support to a person or group

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Realism

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Try to present something the way it is in reality

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Linear Perspective

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Mathematical system for representing three-dimensional space on a flat surface

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Renaissance Man

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A person who is interested and talented in many things

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Attributed

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Regarded as being produced by

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Sfumato

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When a painter makes the edges of objects in the background softer, giving a smokey illusion

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Fresco

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A painting made on fresh plaster

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The Scientific Revolution

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A series of events that marked the emergence of modern science during the early modern period, when developments in mathematics, physics, astronomy, biology and chemistry transformed the views of society about nature

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Geocentric Theory

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Theory that states that the Earth is at the center of the universe and the sun, moon, and stars revolve around the Earth

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Heliocentric Theory

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The theory that places the sun at the center of the universe

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Scientific Method

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A way of using observation, experiments, and careful reasoning to gain new knowledge

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Newton’s Three Laws of Motion

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Through observation and experimentation, Newton concluded that a body remains either at rest or in motion in a straight line unless it is affected by some outside force

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Sonnet

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A poem of fourteen lines with a fixed rhyming pattern