Renaissance Vocab

1. an economy in which prices are determined by the buying and selling decisions of individuals in the marketplace
5. of a particular religious group within a larger faith. For example, Lutheranism is one denomination within Christianity.
8. an economic policy by which nations try to gather wealth by controlling trade and establishing colonies
11. a Renaissance statesman and historian who wrote “The Prince”

2. a small-scale business in which people produce goods at home
3. an outbreak of a contagious disease that spreads quickly and over a wide geographic area
4. a great flowering of culture, based on classical Greek and Roman ideas and art, that began in Italy in the Late Middle Ages and spread throughout Europe
6. the name given by Europeans to the Americas, which were unknown to most Europeans before the voyages of Christopher Columbus
7. an Italian city-state and leading cultural center during the Renaissance
9. a rise in prices, often due an increase in the supply of money
10. relating to earthly life rather than to religious or spiritual matters