Vocab History

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Renaissance

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Revival of classical learning from Greece and Rome.

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Humanism

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An intellectual movement focusing on human potential and achievements.

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Secular

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Concerned with worldly rather than spiritual matters

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Patron

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A person who provides financial support for the arts.

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Perspective

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An artistic technique in Renaissance painting that created a 3D effect.

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Vernacular

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The everyday language of a region or country.

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Utopia

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An imagined place or state of things in which everything is perfect.

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William Shakespeare

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English poet and playwright, one of the greatest writers in English.

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Johann Gutenberg

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Inventor of the printing press

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Indulgence

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A pardon from punishments for a sin.