The Renaissance Flashcards
Allegiance
wearing your loyalty to a superior power and individual or group of people
Anatomy
the studies of the human body, the animal and other living organism
Aqueducts
water path ways that transport water
Astronomy
the studies of stars
Beliefs
a statement that you value
Bills of Exchange
a person who sends an order for another to pay a demanded price
Black Death
an infection that spread around Europe
Christianity
a religion that Christians follow
City-state
a city with its surrounding territories that makes up state/independent country
Civic Humanism
The term for moral and social political philosophy.
Classic civilizations
Rome, Greece and Islam
Crusades
A medieval military expedition, one of a series made by Europeans to recover the Holy Land from the Muslims in the 11th, 12th, and 13th centuries.
Cultural Contact
when two people from different cultural make contact
Democracy
A system of government where the whole population can elect someone.
Excommunication
the action of officially excluding someone from participation in the sacraments and services of the Christian Church.
Exploration
the action of travelling in or through an unfamiliar area in order to learn about it.
Feudalism
feudalism was a hierarchy based on social class.
Heresy
belief or opinion contrary to orthodox religious (especially Christian) doctrine.
Hinterland
An area behind a coast or the shoreline of a river. Specifically, by the doctrine of the hinterland, the hinterland is the inland region lying behind a port and is claimed by the state that owns the coast
Holy Land
The Holy Land is a term which in Judaism refers to the Land of Israel. The term is also used by Muslims and Christians to refer to the area between the Jordan River and Mediterranean Sea.
Humanism
values on human beings
Indulgences
a way to reduce the amount of punishment one has to undergo for sins according to Christianity
Islam
The word Islam means submission to the will of God
Isolation
the process or fact of isolating or being isolated.
Judaism
the monotheistic religion of the Jews.
Manor/Fiefdoms
a piece of land owned by the lord
Hierarchy
a system or organisation in which people or groups are ranked one above the other according to status or authority.
Middle Ages
the period of European history from the fall of the Roman Empire in the West (5th century) to the fall of Constantinople (1453), or, more narrowly, from c. 1100 to 1453.
Monarchies
a form of government with a monarch at the head.
Noble
(especially in former times) a person of noble rank or birth.
Oligarchy
a small group of people having control of a country, organisation, or institution.
Patrons
People who paid artists to produce works.
Peasants/serfs
Serfdom is the status of many peasants under feudalism, specifically relating to manorial ism, and similar systems
Perspective
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.
Philosophers
A person engaged or learned in philosophy, especially as an academic discipline.
Renaissance
The rebirth of old ideas.
Rural
the countryside rather than the city
Scientific Method
created in the Renaissance, helped explain many different experiments.
Silk Road
a network of trade routes.
Sovereignty
A superior power.
Trade
exchanging luxury goods, spices and many other things.
Urbanization
the process of making an area more urban
Usury
borrowing money that proves to be unfair to whoever you borrowed it from.
values
what you believe.
vernacular
the original language spoken in an area
worldview
how a persons views the world
tithe
a portion (10%) of a person’s crops and earning given to the church as charity, HAD TO BE DONE.
Pilgrim
to go on a holy migration.
serfs
peasants
