| A | B |
|---|
| plague | a highly infectious, usually fatal, epidemic disease |
| monarchy | a strong central government ruled by a king or a queen |
| heretic | a person who has controversial opinions, especially one who publicly disagrees with the accepted beliefs of the Roman Catholic Church |
| individualism | personal independence; the idea that every person should be free to develop and pursue his or her own goals |
| Renaissance | the revival of attention to classical Greek and Roman art, literature, and learning that originated in Italy in the 14th century |
| Humanism | a doctrine or attitude that is concerned with human beings and their values, capactities, and achievements |
| Republic | a political order whose head of state is not a monarch and in which supreme power lies in a body of elected citizens |
| mercenary | a professional soldier hired by a foreign country |
| realism | an artistic style that aims to visually rrepresent people and objects as they exist |
| Machiavelli | wrote the Prince |
| Medici | powerful family of the Renaissance |
| Venice | One of the largest of the Italian city states |
| republic | a form of government with no monarch |
