Renaissance Unit Vocabulary
14 Renaissance related vocabulary words
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- Cape of Good Hope
- the southern tip of Africa
- Strait of Magellan
- a waterway near the southern tip of South America
- divine right of kings
- the belief that the authority of kings comes directly from God
- Versailles
- the palace built for the French king Louis XIV
- Northwest Passage
- a sea route through North America
- tsar
- the Russian emperor
- circumnavigate
- to sail or fly completely around something, such as Earth
- Protestant
- referring to Christian religions that grew out of the Reformation
- Renaissance
- the period of the rebirth of learning in Europe between about 1300 and 1600
- humanism
- a system of thought that focuses on the nature, ideals, and achievements of human beings, rather than on the divine
- absolute monarch
- a king or queen with complete authority over the government and people in a society
- Elizabethan Age
- a golden age of English history when Queen Elizabeth I was queen
- Age of Exploration
- the period of European exploration overseas from about 1400 to 1600
- Reformation
- the effort to change or reform the Roman Catholic Church which led to the establishment of Protestant churches