History Alive!MedievalCh.28-30
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- comedy
- an amusing play with a happy ending
- painting
- artwork created with paint on a flat surface such as paper or canvas
- engraving
- a print of an image that has been engraved or etched, in a hard surface, such as metal
- circulation
- the movement of blood through the body
- chapel
- a room, sometimes inside a larger church, set aside for prayer and worship
- hoist
- a mechanical device used to lift people or heavy objects
- Renaissance
- a great flowering of culture, toward the end of the Middle Ages, that began in Italy and spread throughout europe
- monarchs
- rulers, such as kings or queens
- mathematics
- the science of numbers
- republic
- a form of government in which people elect representatives to rule in their name
- commerce
- the buying and selling of goods
- scientists
- an expert in some aspect of science
- woodcut
- a print of an image that has been carved in wood
- advance
- improvement
- perspective
- the appearance of distance or depth on a flat surface, as in a painting
- science
- knowledge of the physical world
- engineering
- the science of building structures and the like
- humanities
- areas of study that focus on human life and culture, such as history, literature, rhetoric, grammar, and ethics
- literature
- writing in prose or verse that is excellent in form and expresses ideas of interest to a wide range of people; an aspect of culture
- subject
- a person under the rule of a monarch
- satire
- a work that uses sharp humor to attack people or society
- axis
- an imaginary line drawn through a sphere, or ball, such as Earth
- secular
- relating to earthly life rather than to religion or spiritual matters
- New World
- the name given by Europeans to the Americas, which were unknown in Europe before the voyages of Christopher Columbus
- proportion
- the relative sizes of things, such as the length of an arm compared to the overall size of the human body
- sculpture
- the art of creating three-dimensional figures from such materials as wood, stone, and clay
- city-state
- an independent state consisting of a city and its surrounding territory
- patron
- a person who supports the arts or other activities by supplying money for them
- tragedy
- a serious play with a sad ending
- dissect
- to cut and separate the parts of a living thing for scientific study
- playwright
- an author of plays
- armada
- a large fleet of ships
- architecture
- the art of designing buildings
- artists
- people who create art
- politics
- the science of government
- classical art
- art influenced by the styles and techniques of ancient Greece and Rome
- writer
- someone who expresses ideas and stories with written words and language
- humanism
- a philosophy that emphasizes the worth and potential of all individuals and tries to balance religious faith with belief in the power of the human mind
- trade
- the business of buying and selling or exchanging items
- learning
- knowledge gained from study or experience