Across the Centuries Chpt 11 Vocab
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- Plague
- A highly infectious, usually fatal, epidemic disease
- Monarchy
- A strong central government ruled by a king or queen
- heretic
- A person who has controversial opinions with the Catholic Church
- individualism
- personal independence
- Renaissance
- The revival of attention to classic Greek and Roman art, literature & learning that originated in Italy in the 14th century
- republic
- A political order whose head of state is not a monarchy & in which supreme power lies in a body of elected citizens
- mercenary
- a professional soldier who is hired by a foreign country
- humanism
- a doctrine or attitude that is concerned primarily with human beings and their value, capacities and achievements
- realism
- an artistic style that attempts to visually represent people and objects as they exist.
- patrician
- a member of the highest class of society in Italian city-states during the Renaissance.
- patron
- A person who financially supports scholars or artists.
- dowry
- valuable things given by a bride's family to her husband at marriage.