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Monday, October 15, 2012

New Unit Vocabulary DUE TUESDAY 10/16/12

Unit 2: Chapter 1 The Renaissance Vocabulary (7th Grade)

  1. Renaissance
  2. Florence
  3. Medicis
  4. Lorenzo de’ Medici
  5. Patron
  6. Christopher Columbus
  7. Nicolaus Copernicus
  8. Humanism
  9. Humanities
  10. Francesco Petrarch
  11. Isabella d’Este of Mantua
  12. Donatello
  13. Perspective
  14. Women artists
  15. Gothic style
  16. Leonardo da Vinci
  17. Michelangelo
  18. Raphael
  19. Baladassare Castiglione
  20. Niccolo Machiavelli
  21. Engravings
  22. Vernacular
  23. Thomas More
  24. Utopian
  25. William Shakespeare
  26. Printing revolution
  27. Indulgence
  28. Recant
  29. Martin Luther
  30. Predestination
  31. Theocracy
  32. Annul
  33. Canonized
  34. Compromise
  35. Scapegoats
  36. Ghetto
  37. Heliocentric
  38. Hypothesis
  39. Galileo Galilei
  40. Gravity




Unit 2: Chapter 1 Age of Exploration Vocabulary (8th Grade)

*** Must provide a definition and sentence for each word.

  1. Christopher Columbus
  2. Casco Nunex de Balboa
  3. Ferdinand Magellan
  4. strait
  5. circumnavigate
  6. conquistador
  7. Hernando Cortez
  8. Montezuma
  9. plantation
  10. encomienda
  11. Bartolome de Las Casas
  12. mission
  13. penisular
  14. mercantilism
  15. John Cabot
  16. northwest passage
  17. Henry Hudson
  18. Samuel de Champlain
  19. coureur de bois
  20. Jaques Maguette
  21. alliance

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