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Classroom Copy—Do NOT write on this paper!!! Standards Vocabulary—Renaissance

Instructions: Copy the following words and definitions into your Learning Target Notebook on page 12. WORD DEFINITION

1. anatomy the study of the structure of living things; the human body

2. astronomy the scientific study of stars, planets, and other objects in outer space

3. cartography the process or skill of making maps of or relating to the ancient Greek and Roman world and especially 4. classical to its language, literature, art, etc. 5. disseminating to cause something, such as information, to go to many people the work of designing and creating large structures or new products 6. engineering or systems by using scientific methods a system of values and beliefs that is based on the idea that people 7. humanism are basically good and that problems can be solved using reason instead of religion German printer; inventor of printing by movable type (printing 8. Johann Gutenberg press) 9. Leonardo da Vinci Italian painter, sculptor, architect, and engineer Italian merchant, famous for his account of his travels in Asia. He 10. Marco Polo spent 17 years serving Kublai Khan before returning to Venice by sea. 11. Michelangelo Italian sculptor, painter, architect, and poet

12. Moorish of or relating to one of the Arab and Berber conquerors of Spain “new birth;” the period of European history between the 14th and 13. Renaissance 17th centuries marked by a flourishing of art and literature inspired by ancient times and by the beginnings of modern science a period in which something becomes popular again after a long 14. revival period of time 15. Silk Road ancient trade route that extended from China to the Mediterranean

16. vernacular the language of ordinary speech rather than formal writing English poet and playwright considered one of the greatest English 17. William Shakespeare writers