Renaissance Vocab

4. Movement of people from rural areas to cities
5. a city that with its surrounding territory forms an independent state.
7. pardon from sin
12. a German monk who became one of the most famous critics of the Roman Catholic Church. In 1517, he wrote 95 theses, or statements of belief attacking the church practices.
16. Painted the Sistine Chapel
17. the belief that people are important and capable of learning, creating, and improving the world
18. a form of government in which citizens elect representatives to rule for them
19. Painter of the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper
20. The first European to use the moveable type to print copies of the bible.

1. Ruled Florence during the Renaissance, became wealthy from banking, spent a lot of money on art, controlled Florence for about 3 centuries
2. Dutch humanist and theologian who was the leading Renaissance scholar of northern Europe
3. The study of history, poetry, and writing
6. a system where people traded land and work for protection.
8. Art of making agreements with other countries
9. long and narrow strip of water made for boats or for irrigation
10. A mechanical device for transferring text or graphics from a woodblock or type to paper using ink. Presses using movable type first appeared in Europe in about 1450.
11. Reformation A religious movement of the 16th century that began as an attempt to reform the Roman Catholic Church and resulted in the creation of Protestant churches.
13. rebirth
14. Writer in the northern renaissance. Was known for writing dramatic plays.
15. A man who devotes his life to a religious group, often giving up all he owns.