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Support artist financially or by other means
Define the Term "Patron of the Arts"
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"A printing press is a mechanical device for applying pressure to an inked surface resting upon a print medium, thereby transferring the ink."
What was the Printing Press?
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The Heliocentric Model - the theory that all planets revolved around the sun not the earth.
What theory did Copernicus come up with? What was it?
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King - Clergy & Nobles - Peasants
Name the order of power during the Feudal system (i.e. social class standing) (top to bottom)
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"Sharecropping is a legal arrangement with regard to agricultural land in which a landowner allows a tenant to use the land in return for a share of the crops produced on that land"
Define the Term "Sharecropping"
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"An instrument used to measure the locations of stars and planets as an aid to navigate"
What was the astrolabe?
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"A protégées explorer who set out from Spain in 1519 with a fleet of five ships to discover a western sea route to the Spice Islands" (spice trade)
Who was Ferdinand Magellan?
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They had more control over bigger populations.
During the crusades why did the Roman Catholic church gain power?
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People started believe they had the power to grow and make changes to their life, rather than having a pre-determined fate. A huge shift in religion
Why was Humanism important during the Renaissance?
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A series of wars in which christians tried to take control of the holy land.
What were the Crusades?
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He was an Italian painter, sculptor, architect, and engineer "whose skill and intelligence, perhaps more than that of any other figure during the Renaissance embodied humanism ideals (renaissance men)
Who was Leonardo Da Vinci and why is he important to the Renaissance?
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A trade route established connecting the East and West where people could trade many things including spices and silks
What was the silk road?
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The Black Plague caused wide spread death. This meant:
- Workers were more valuable - Less demand on resources - More movement between class systems - Change in belief systems (many priest/monks died)
Why was the Black Plague/death significant during the Renaissance?
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The noble landowners and church
Before urbanization who made political decisions about politics/justice (law)
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"The Medici family ruled the city of Florence throughout the Renaissance. They had a major influence on the growth of the Italian Renaissance through their patronage of the arts and humanism." "The House of Medici was an Italian banking family and political dynasty"
Who were the Medici family and what "fields" were they a part of (i.e. science, government, etc.)
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Many influential play-writes had plays perform there. The globe theater is based on a sketch of a sketch
Why was the globe theater important? What was the interesting fact about the globe theater we looked into?
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"A vernacular, or vernacular language is a term for a type of speech variety, generally used to refer to a local language or dialect, as distinct from what is seen as a standard language"
What is vernacular language?
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The barter economy was the primary economy at the start of the Renaissance but as society changed they moved towards a cash economy like we see today.
What was the significance of the barter economy vs. a cash economy during the Renaissance?
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People started to shift their views to Humanism and they lost most of their territory and wealth to Muslim and Jewish countries.
Why did the Roman Catholic Church begin to loose power during the Renaissance?
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To help a family establish financial stability and social power
What was the main purpose of marriages during the Renaissance?
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