Transformations in Europe Vocabulary List
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Transformations in Europe Vocabulary
List7TH GRADE SOCIAL STUDIES
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Renaissance
The great period of rebirth in art, literature, and learning in the 14th-16th centuries, which marked the transition into the modern periods of European history
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Enlightenment
Intellectual movement centered in France during the 18th century; argued for scientific advance, the application of scientific methods to study human society; believed that rational laws could describe social behavior.
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Rene Descartes
French thinker who stressed logic and reason to achieve scientific knowledge
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Feudalism
a political and social system that developed during the Middle Ages; nobles offered protection and land in return for service
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Raphael
Italian Renaissance painter; he painted frescos, his most famous being The School of Athens.
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Michelangelo
Italian artist who painted the ceiling of the Sistine chapel and the sculpture of David
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Humanism
a renaissance intellectual movement in which thinkers studied classical texts and focused on human potential and achievements
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Isaac Newton
Scientist who discovered laws of motion and gravity
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Galileo Galilei
Italian astronomer, mathematician, and physicist. His telescopes proved the sun is the center of the solar system.
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Johannes Gutenberg
German printer who was the first in Europe to print using movable type and the first to use a press (1400-1468)
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Middle Ages
the period between the fall of the Roman Empire in the west (470) and the beginning of the European Renaissance in the 1400s. This period is also known as "Medieval."
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Dante Alighieri
Italian poet and humanist; he was the author of the Divine Comedy, one of the greatest literary classics
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Niccolo Machiavelli
Italian Renaissance writer, described government in the way it actually worked. He wrote The Prince.
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Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance artist that painted The Last Supper and Mona Lisa, he was also an engineer, architect, sculptor, and scientist.
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William Shakespeare
an English poet and playwright; HAMLET , HENRY V
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Scientific Revolution
an era between 16th and 18th centuries when scientists began doing research in a new way using the scientific method