The Renaissance Vocabulary

Question 1

feudalism

Answer 1

Feudalism was a social hierarchy that show everyones place in society.

Question 2

hierarchy.

Answer 2

In a hierarchy people are ranked one above another according to their importance. People were born into a level of feudal society and they expected to stay in that level for their entire lives.

Question 3

allegiance

Answer 3

that is, loyalty, to the king. They promised
to fight for him in exchange for the rights to pieces of land called
manors or fiefs.

Question 4

manors

Answer 4

pieces of land that a lord was responsible for.

Question 5

freemen

Answer 5

people rented land from the lord or worked for pay.

Question 6

serfs

Answer 6

People who were not allowed to leave the manor without the lord’s permission as they were owned by the lords to work on the manor.

Question 7

monastery.

Question 8

journeymen

Answer 8

A worker who has learned a trade and works for another person usually by the day.

After years of working and training they would take a test to become journeymen and be admitted to the guild.

Question 9

sumptuary laws.

Answer 9

In most European countries
there were “sumptuary laws”
that controlled consumption,
or how people spent their
money. These laws restricted
what people of different
classes could wear.

Question 10

city-states.

Answer 10

A city-state consists of a city that is politically independent
and the rural area around it.

Question 11

Climate.

Answer 11

weather

Question 12

Usury,

Answer 12

the practice of charging interest when loaning money to someone, played an important part in creating wealth.

Question 13

republic,

Answer 13

a state in which power is held by the people.

Question 14

humanists

Answer 14

This new way of thinking appears to have started in the northern Italian city-states, where scholars we now call humanists looked back to the ancient classical civilizations of Greece and Rome. These scholars studied Greek and Roman writings and art and applied classical ideas in their own lives and work.

Question 15

aqueducts

Answer 15

pipes that carried water great distances into the cities,

Question 16

Philosophers

Question 17

democracy

Question 18

Civic

Question 19

Patrons,

Question 20

petroglyphs

Question 21

pictographs

Question 22

vernacular

Question 23

sonnets

Question 24

heresy,

Question 25

anatomy,

Question 26

astrology,

Question 27

excommunication,

Question 28

indulgences,

Question 29

disseminates

Question 30

Renaissance.

Question 31

eras.

Question 32

Byzantine Empire,

Question 33

Middle Ages

Question 34

astrolabe:

Question 35

crusade:

Question 36

Judaism:

Question 37

Christianity:

Question 38

Islam:

Question 39

pilgrims

Question 40

diplomacy

Question 41

pestilence:

Question 42

Mortality,

Question 43

urbanization:

Question 44

value judgment:

Question 45

court:

Question 46

papacy)

Question 47

despots

Question 48

oligarchies.

Question 49

despots

Question 50

sovereignty

Question 51

guilds,

Question 52

aristocracy:

Question 53

basilica:

Question 54

armory:

Question 55

frescoes,

Question 56

fiefdoms

Question 57

status quo.

Question 58

humanism:

Question 59

vernacular

Question 60

contemporary:

Question 61

perspective: (Art)

Question 62

Trinity:

Question 63

Crucifixion.

Question 64

Flemish:

Question 65

disciplines.

Question 66

hinterland

Answer 66

A city-state consists of a city that is politically independent
and the rural area around it. This rural area is called the hinterland.