Unit 1

Renaissance: The Origins of a Western Worldview

Targets
Skill Builders

Chapter 3 Summary

After completing Chapter 3, you should be able to answer the Big Question:

  • How could a shift in ideas change a society's worldview?

You also studied the following smaller questions to help you answer the Big Question. 


  1. Which traditional classical ideas helped form the Renaissance humanist worldview?
  2. How can thinkers and philosophers bring about change in society?
  3. What do the arts tell us about a society?

Download the graphic organizer seen in Figure 3.1 to help you review Chapter 3.

Remember to review the vocabulary for Chapter 3.

  • Cicero
  • civic humanism
  • classical
  • democracy
  • Erasmus
  • humanism
  • humanist
  • Michelangelo
  • patron
  • Petrarch
  • philosopher
  • scholar
  • vernacular

Figure 3.1 - Chapter 3 Graphic Organizer