Renaissance Vocabulary

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  1. 2. She was an educated woman, very uncommon at the time. She wrote for a living and helped empower women.
  2. 8. Come along with me, let’s go stake our claim to Jerusalem. It’s pretty much a suicide mission though.
  3. 10. Invented by people in the islamic empire, this device helps people measure distances between stars and planets.
  4. 11. He helped to prove the theory of heliocentricity, and his name is repeatedly screamed in bohemian rhapsody
  5. 13. The black plague was one of these, killing ⅔ of the european population.
  6. 15. A person who forcibly rules a nation, like Savonarola
  7. 16. More people move out of the countryside and into Florence, Naples, Rome and other cities.
  8. 22. A planetary system that orbits around the sun.
  9. 24. He was a play writer and he was patronized by the medici family
  10. 25. To be or not to be, that is the question.
  11. 26. Step right up, step right up! Do you have any sins but still want to go to heaven? Get the Church’s guarantee today. Only 3 marks!
  12. 28. Not christianity, these people sometimes controlled banks because they could charge interest. They had different holidays such as Purim, Rosh Hashanah, and Hanukkah.
  13. 29. The way of ruling that would happen if savonarola's way of leading was mixed with the medicis way of ruling. Ruling forcibly.
  14. 31. A person who pays you do make art.
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  1. 1. The Queen of Navarre, she brought many great inventors, artists and thinkers into the court. She also protected them. The Prime Minister of the Poor, they called her.
  2. 3. Moral beliefs, what you do based on these things that are important to you.
  3. 4. He was the first man to come up with the theory of heliocentricity
  4. 5. The base of the Feudal system was based of lots of peasants and these people. That is, until the black plague killed a bunch of them.
  5. 6. Martin Luther was one of the biggest things that caused the ___________ of the protestant christian church
  6. 7. Re-birth of art, architecture, literature and knowledge. What the time period is called.
  7. 9. The church had ___________ over the people up until, and somewhat during the renaissance
  8. 12. The man who remade the entire idea around religion. He had 95 theses.
  9. 14. Movable metal type onto metal plates go onto this machine to print materials that spread knowledge throughout Europe.
  10. 15. You know, the artist who took the world apart to see how it worked? Bonus clue: he created the Vitruvian man.
  11. 17. German person who helped bring knowledge and understandable bibles to people everywhere with his invention.
  12. 18. Painting and art to reflect people as they actually were. No more monster people. They actually looked real and could now interact with each other in the art.
  13. 19. A planetary system that the church was certain about. Obviously, the universe orbits around earth!
  14. 20. A system of government that was in power before the renaissance during the middle ages. A select few people were in charge.
  15. 21. The time that was before the renaissance. The lack of art, literature and knowledge was fairly depressing.
  16. 23. Gutenberg published many books in these native languages.
  17. 27. A form of painting that hit its peak during the renaissance that uses watercolour on wet plaster. Fun fact: it didn't work well in venice because it was too damp
  18. 30. Year 0 would be the first year in this. Before this time, we write things as BC or BCE.