Renaissance Unit - Study Guide Questions PDF

Renaissance Study Guide QUESTIONS Define the following key terms. city-states nobility excommunication expansionism feudalism freeman/serf eurocentrism heresy mercantilism cir...

Renaissance Study Guide QUESTIONS Define the following key terms. city-states nobility excommunication expansionism feudalism freeman/serf eurocentrism heresy mercantilism circumnavigate hierarchy Classical Era merchant immunity imperialism humanist scientific method manor indigenous indulgences monarchy monastery vernacular clergy Record everything you know or understand about the concepts in each chart. The Middle Ages Concept Significance How the society was organized. Religious beliefs Change factors Significance Peasant revolts 1  Black Death Rise of the Middle Class Who was in the Upper Class? Who was in the Middle Class? Who was in the Lower Class? Changes in Technology The Expansion of Trade How did trouble on the Silk Road lead to Exploration? What were two important results of Contact with Muslims? What were the goods traded from the East? What were the Italian city-states? 2  How were the city-states impacted by their Geography Climate Leadership Social Organization Banking Humanism Review the factors that form a Renaissance humanist worldview. Factors Significance Classical civilizations Contributing to society (civic humanism) Importance of the individual (individualism) Importance of learning & skepticism 3 The Exchange of Ideas Concept/person Significance Scientific method Astronomy Medicine Mathematics Using perspective in art Leonardo da Vinci Michelangelo Galileo Catholic Church Luther Protestantism Printing press 4 The Age of Exploration Concept Significance New Technologies and Techniques Economic reasons for exploration Religious reasons for exploration Impact of technology on exploration Nationalism & Imperialism What are the three “G’s” related to European Exploration and Expansion? What were some of the terrible costs of imperialism for indigenous people? How did Humanism connect to exploration and expansion? 5 Renaissance - Additional Key Terms CHALLENGE - is credited at discovering the Americas - built the telescope and studied objects in the sky. - Europeans would capture this in order to take over a indigenous tribe - the actions and attitudes of a state or country whose goal is to increase power and territory - the spread of information - first man to circumnavigate the globe - the process of observing, experimenting and drawing conclusions - challenged church teaching and wrote 95 Theses - country that conquered the Incas and Aztecs - was responsible for most of the deaths among indigenous peoples in the New World - to make an educated guess - sold by the church for forgiveness of sins - used mathematics to calculate that the planets orbits were oval not circular. - study of the human body - to circle the globe - Roman Catholic Missionaries - a movement away from the Roman Catholic church and beginnings of new church denominations. - the extension of power over territory and resources - number one resource sought after by Europeans - Europeans were looking for a route here - painted the Last Supper and Mona Lisa - study of the stars - set up a school for navigation in Portugal - new type of ship that allowed for more exploration - came up with the hypothesis that the sun is the center of the universe. 6