vocabulary renaissance COPY

Question 1

feudalism

Answer 1

the system of political organization during the Middle Ages in which the lord owned the land and all others served him

Question 2

Hierarchy

Answer 2

a social system in which status is raked and power is concentrated in the higher ranks

Question 3

Allegiance

Answer 3

Loyalty

Question 4

Manors

Answer 4

a piece of land sometimes called a fief

Question 5

Freemen (page 19)

Answer 5

peasants who rented land or worked for pay

Question 6

Serfs

Answer 6

peasants who worked the land for the lord and were not allowed to leave the manor without the lord’s permission

Question 7

Journeyman

Answer 7

a person who has learned a trade and joined a guild

Question 8

Monastery (page 22)

Answer 8

building and lands in which monks lived and carried out their religion duties.

Question 9

Sumptuary laws (page 27)

Answer 9

laws that controlled the consumption or how people spent their money

Question 10

Tithe (page 31)

Answer 10

a portion of the crops or percentage of earnings paid to the church

Question 11

The Crusades (page 41 – not bolded)

Answer 11

A christian military expedition

Question 12

City-States (page 47)

Answer 12

a politically indépendant city and the rural area or hinterland around it

Question 13

Hinterland

Answer 13

the rural area around a city- state

Question 14

Monarchy

Answer 14

countries ruled by a king or queen.

Question 15

Usury

Answer 15

the practice of charging interest when loaning money to someone.

Question 16

Humanist (page 60)

Answer 16

a person who adopts a system of thought that centres on humans and their values, capacities, and worth; concern with the interests, needs, and welfare of humans.

Question 17

Aqueducts (page 62)

Answer 17

a channel used to move water, usually supported on a bridge structure when it had to cross a valley

Question 18

Philosophers (page 62)

Answer 18

one who studies the truth and principles underlying human conduct and knowledge and the nature of the universe.

Question 19

Democracy

Answer 19

a form of government fin which people elect representatives to rile the country

Question 20

Civic

Answer 20

relating to citizenship or civic affairs.

Question 21

Patrons

Answer 21

a person who pays artists to produce works.

Question 22

Vernacular

Answer 22

the language commonly spoken by the role who live that region

Question 23

Sonnets

Answer 23

a poetic from that consists of 14 lines.

Question 24

Heresy

Answer 24

opposing church teachings

Question 25

anatomy (page 82)

Answer 25

the science that deals with the structure of animals and plants

Question 26

astronomy (page 82)

Answer 26

the science that deals with stars

Question 27

perspective (in art) (pages 86-87)

Answer 27

the collective point of view of a specific group, which can be expressed by a member of the group who has the authority to speak for the group, in art, the technique , or representing objects in paintings as they appear to the eye.

Question 28

scientific method

Answer 28

the process of making observations experimenting and drawing conclusions based on evidence.

Question 29

allegory

Answer 29

a work in which the characters and events are meant ti understood as representing other things and symbolically expressing a deeper moral political meaning.

Question 30

excommunication

Answer 30

official exclusion from the catholic church

Question 31

disseminates

Answer 31

to spread information

Question 32

Machiavellian

Answer 32

a crafty, unscrupulous person who seeks and holds power by any means possible.

Question 33

Vanities

Answer 33

it was the wigs and makeups and clothing that was burned.

Question 34

Indulgences

Answer 34

certificates that reduced the time people would be punished for their sins after they died.

Question 35

Reformation (page 94)

Answer 35

a religious movement to changer to reform the roman Catholic Church that resulted in the establishment if some other christian religions, such as as the Lutheran church

Question 36

Manuscripts

Answer 36

is a book or document written by hand

Question 37

Scribe

Answer 37

a person who copied books

Question 38

navigation

Answer 38

the science of determining the course, position, and distance travelled ,especially of a ship

Question 39

Expansionism

Answer 39

the actions and attitudes of a state or country whose goal is to expand its power and territory

Question 40

Indigenous

Answer 40

someone born in a country the first inhabitants of an area

Question 41

Immunity

Answer 41

resistance to disease

Question 42

Imperialism

Answer 42

the extension of power over a territory including its resources and people.