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World History Vocabulary 1B
Assigned 10/30/2012 Due no later than 10/31/2012
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9th Grade
10/30/2012

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Renaissance
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the activity, spirit, or time of the great revival of art, literature, and learning in Europe beginning in the 14th century and extending to the 17th century, marking the transition from the medieval to the modern world.
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Humanism
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any system or mode of thought or action in which human interests, values, and dignity predominate.
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Secular
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of or pertaining to worldly things or to things that are not regarded as religious, spiritual, or sacred; temporal
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Patron
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a person who supports with money, gifts, efforts, or endorsement an artist, writer, museum, cause, charity, institution, special event, or the like
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Perspective
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a visible scene, especially one extending to a distance
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Vernacular
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expressed or written in the native language of a place, as literary works
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Utopia
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an ideal place or state
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William Shakespeare
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1564–1616, English poet and dramatist
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Johann Gutenberg
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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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