| Conversos | Converted Jews |
| Communes | Sworn associations of free men seeking economic independence |
| Alexander VI | Pope, aided militarily by his son |
| Cesare Borgia | The hero of The Prince |
| Botticelli | Creator of the Birth of Venus |
| Medici | Great banking family - patrons of the arts |
| Castiglione | Wrote The Courtier |
| . Cervantes | Wrote Don Quixote |
| Pico Della Mirandola | Wrote On The Dignity of Man |
| . Brunelleschi | Architect designed the Foundling Hospital in Florence |
| Da Vinci | Created The Last Supper |
| Business contracts | Marriage vows were often treated like |
| . Popolo | Bitterly resentful and heavily taxed who wanted a voice in government |
| . Signori | One-man rulers |
| Savonarola | Attacked moral vice in Florence |
| Individualism | Stressed personality, uniqueness, and talents |
| Alberti | Men can do all things if they will |
| Boccaccio | Writer of the Decameron |
| Secularism | Focus on the material world not the spiritual world |
| 1400s | quattrocento |
| 1500s | cinquecento |
| High Renaissance | When Rome took the lead in art |
| . Giotto | Artist who led the way in realism |
| Piero della Francesca | Pioneered perspective in painting |
| Michelangelo | Painted the Sistine Chapel |
| Gutenberg | Invented movable-type printing |
| . Declined | The status of upper class women? |
| Advanced | Education for Renaissance women? |
| Blacks | Like women, these were a sign of wealth |
| Christian | Northern humanists remained more? |
| Erasmus | Dutch humanist |
| More | Wrote Utopia |
| Bosch | Flemish painter, used religious themes |
| Northern architecture | Was not influenced by the classical style |
| Gabelle | Salt tax in France |
| Taille | Salt tax in France |
| Roses | English Civil War was a battle of the? |
| Henry VII | Rebuilt the English monarchy |
| Reconquista | Expulsion of the Jews in Spain |
| Inquisition | Often cruel religious court |