Topic 15 Vocabulary Quiz

the view that religion need not be the center of human affairs​ ​ (a)  

• secularism
• mercantile
• Renaissance
• scientific method
• patron

French for “rebirth”, refers to a period of cultural revival in Europe from the 1300’s to the 1500's​ (a)  

• Renaissance
• mercantile
• scientific method
• patron
• secularism

related to commerce or trade ​ (a)  

• mercantile
• scientific method
• patron
• secularism
• Renaissance

someone who gives money or other support to a person or group​ (a)  

• patron
• scientific method
• secularism
• Renaissance
• mercantile

a method of using observation, experiments, and careful reasoning to gain new knowledge ​ (a)  

• scientific method
• mercantile
• Renaissance
• patron
• secularism

What is the theory that all knowledge is gained through experience and observing with the senses?

What is a cultural movement of the Renaissance based on the study of classical works?

Match the following

• vernacular

• everyday spoken language

• Heliocentric theory

• the theory that places the sun at the center of the universe

• individualism

• an imaginary, ideal place

• utopia

• the belief in the importance of the individual as opposed to the larger community

• heresy

• a belief that is rejected by official Church doctrine

What is the process of looking at specific facts and making general principles or rules based on those facts?

Match the following

• Federalism

• the belief that knowledge is gained by thinking things through using reason

• Rationalism

• a form of government in which power is divided between local and national levels

• satire

• work of literature that makes fun of its subject often mocking vice or folly