renaissance stuff

            VOCAB

    1: Mercenary: soldiers who fought primarily for money.

    2: Burgher: a member of the middle class who lived

    3: republic: a form of government in which the leader is not a king and certain citizens have the right to vote

    4: Humanism: an intellectual movement of the renaissance based on the study of the humanities, which included grammar, rhetoric, poetry, moral philosophy, and history.

    5: Fresco: painting done on fresh, wet plaster with water-based paints

    6: Vernacular: the language of everyday speech and particular region

    7: Perspective: artistic techniques used to give the effect of three dimensional depth to two dimensional surfaces

    8: Christian humanism: a movement that developed in northern europe during the renaissance, combining classical learning and individualism with the goal of reforming the catholic church.

    9: Salvation: the state of being saved (that is, going to heaven) through faith alone ore through faith and good works.

    10: Indulgence: a release from all or part of punishment for sin by the catholic church, reducing time in purgatory after death

    11: Lutheranism: the religious doctrine that martin Luther developed; it differed from catholicism in the doctrine of salvation, which Luther believed could be achieved by faith alone and not by good works; lutheranism was the first protestant faith

       ACADEMIC VOCAB

    1: Dominate: to influence or control

    2: Decline: a change to lower a state or level

    3: Attain: to gain pr achieve

    4: Core: basic or essential part

    5: Style: having a distinctive quality or form

    6: Circumstance: a determining condition

    7: Absence: not being present

    8: Fundamental: serving as a base, foundation, or essential part upon which other things develop

    9: External: relating to, situated on, or coming from the outside of a physical object, body, organization, or country

    10: Valid: well-grounded, justifiable, logically correct, or legally binding