Vocabulary-Renaissance

Relating to the time period in European history also known as the Middle Ages; the period in Europe after the fall of the Western Roman Empire

• Medieval
• Hierarchy
• Middle Class
• Investiture
• Manor System

Socially or politically privileged class whose titles are given by inheritance or royal decree

• Nobility

• Middle Class

• Journeyman

• Burgher

• Guild

People between the nobles and the peasants; today, this social class made up of professionals, skilled workers, business people and wealthy farmers

• Journeyman
• Guild
• Vassal
• Middle Class
• Investiture

System of the production, distribution or trade, and consumption or use of limited goods and services by different people or groups in a specific geographic location

• Fair
• Feudalism
• Economy
• Authority
• Fief

Language or dialect native to a region or country, rather than a literary, cultured, or foreign language; the normal spoken form of a language

• Secular

• Vernacular

• Fresco

• Perspective

• Humanism

Form of government in which a state is ruled by representatives of the citizens

• Secular

• Vernacular

• Republic

• Oligarchy

• Diplomacy

Attitudes, activities, or other things that have no religious or spiritual basis; having to do with worldly, as opposed to religious, matters

• Vernacular

• Secular

• Medieval

• Autonomy

• Perspective

Political unit made up of a city and the surrounding countryside that is under control of the city

• City-State

• Urban

• Vernacular

• Economy

• Republic

Form of government characterized by the rule of a few persons or families, usually because of wealth or land ownership

• Secular

• Vernacular

• Republic

• Oligarchy

• Diplomacy

Profession, activity, or skill of managing international relations and of of maintaining peaceful relationships, typically by a country's representatives abroad

• Secular

• Vernacular

• Republic

• Oligarchy

• Diplomacy