vocabulary words

Question 1

Renaissance

Answer 1

the cultural rebirth that occurred in Europe from roughly the fourteenth through the middle of the seventeenth centuries, based on the rediscovery of the literature of Greece and Rome.

Question 2

milan

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an industrial city in central lombardy, N Italy: cathedral.

Question 3

Venice

Answer 3

Italian Venezia. a seaport in NE Italy, built on numerous small islands in the Lagoon of Venice

Question 4

Florence

Answer 4

Italian Firenze. a city in central Italy, on the Arno River: capital of the former grand duchy of Tuscany.

Question 5

Rome

Answer 5

the ancient Italian kingdom, republic, and empire whose capital was the city of rome.

Question 6

medici family

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Cosimo “the elder” (1389-1464) was the first of the family to rule florence.

Question 7

humanism

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an outlook or system of thought attaching prime importance to human rather than divine or suprnatural matters.

Question 8

machiavellian

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characterized by subtle or unscrupulous cunning, deception, expediency, or dishonesty.

Question 9

perspective

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a particular attitude toward or way of regarding something; a point of view.

Question 10

gutenberg

Answer 10

n German printer who was the first in Europe to print using movable type and the first to use a press (1400-1468) Synonyms: Gutenberg, Johannes Gutenberg Example of: pressman, printer. someone whose occupation is printing.

Question 11

erasmus

Answer 11

The Erasmus Programme (European Region Action Scheme for the Mobility of University Students) is a European Union (EU) student exchange programme established in 1987.

Question 12

william shakespeare

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Shakespeare, William definition. An English playwright and poet of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, generally considered the greatest writer in English.

Question 13

sir thomas moore

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Saint Thomas More, was an English lawyer, social philosopher, author, statesman and noted Renaissance humanist.

Question 14

flemish

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the Dutch language as spoken in Flanders, one of the two official languages of Belgium.

Question 15

michelangelo

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Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni was an Italian sculptor, painter, architect, and poet of the High Renaissance who exerted an unparalleled influence on the development of Western art.

Question 16

jan van eyck

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was an Early Netherlandish painter active in Bruges and one of the most significant Northern Renaissance artists of the 15th century.

Question 17

albert durer

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was a painter, printmaker, and theorist of the German Renaissance.

Question 18

fresco

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a painting done rapidly in watercolor on wet plaster on a wall or ceiling, so that the colors penetrate the plaster and become fixed as it dries.

Question 19

indulgences

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a thing that is indulged in; a luxury.

Question 20

predestination

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(as a doctrine in Christian theology) the divine foreordaining of all that will happen, especially with regard to the salvation of some and not others.

Question 21

reformation

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the action or process of reforming an institution or practice.

Question 22

martin luther

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A sixteenth-century German religious leader; the founder of Protestantism.

Question 23

Henry VIII

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A king of England in the early sixteenth century.

Question 24

john calvin

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John (Jean Chauvin or Caulvin) 1509–64, French theologian and reformer in Switzerland: leader in the Protestant Reformation.

Question 25

huguenots

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a French Protestant of the 16th–17th centuries. Largely Calvinist, the Huguenots suffered severe persecution at the hands of the Catholic majority, and many thousands emigrated from France.