Renaissance Test Flashcards
What is the Renaissance?
The Renaissance started in Italy and spread to all of Europe
1300-1600
The beginning of a lot of art and writing
Name means rebirth(revival of art and learning)
Trade started
Cities were formed but 60% was killed because of the bubonic plague
Merchants dominated politics(merchants did not inherit social rank)
Printing press was invented
Humanism
Focus on human potential and achievements, glorification of man
Started after the study of texts
Study of classics
Man as the center of the world
Modern day- democracy cause the people make the choices
Individualism
Individual achievements
To be free to think, speak and act for themselves
Modern day- people are more free to express their beliefs and what not idk or family businesses used to be passed on and the peeps kinda had to work in the business if they were in the family but now people are more free to do their own things. Same goes with arranged marriages.
Secularism
Wordly, not religious/spiritual
No religion
Separation between religion and government
Everybody can have freedom of religion
Modern day- Government is separate from religion
Scientific Naturalism
Nature is the source of all true knowledge
All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions
It is known in modern day science as and associated with philosophy
Modern day- you guys are going to hate me for this but FIBONACCI SEQUENCE cause the peeps are all like hey look at this cool math sequence and blah and then they found out that they can make a ratio out of it and that ratio is actually involved in the way that plants grow!!!!!! hahahahhah i really can relate math to anything
Carruca
Heavy wheeled plow with an iron plowshare
Turned heavy clay soils
Used 608 ox to pull
Later horses
Led to growth of farming villages
Shared by several villages because it was so expensive
Rotated crops
Manor
Agricultural estate
Ran by lord
Worked by servants
Serf
Peasant legally bound to land
DId labor
Payed rent
Payed 10 percent of their produce (tithe) to the church
Could not leave without permission or marry outside the manore
Not slaves
Bourgeoisie
Artisans and merchants in a walled enclosure
Literally means walled enclosure
Patricians
Members of the wealthiest and most powerful families
The only council elected(rigged)
Guilds
Business associations based off of the arts
Guilds became businesses and by 1200s they had guilds for almost all the arts.
Guilds set standards for how the quality and price, etc. of the art should be
Journeymen
Were more skilled than apprentices but less than masters. They worked for masters and earned money.
Commercial capitalism
A system when people would invest in trade and goods in order to gain profit
money economy
Trade had previously not been based on money. The money economy was when money started to become important and developed.
Who is Martin Luther and why is he significant?
He started this thingy mabob called the protestant reformation and that important because it is It changed the government Peeps’ outlook on life and stuff Not everyone's catholic Started a new religion Peeps revolt DEATH DEATH indulgences= bad Cant pay your way out of sin DEATH X2
