After reading the article "The Renaissance Why it changed the world" on the Telegraph

•  Explain the meaning of the following words/phrases:

fluidity, a regime change, by virtue, wages, a new intellectual discipline, perspective, in pursuit of, unprecedented, subservience, circumnavigating, tumultuous.

•   Answer to the questions:

1. According to the article Renaissance had a snowball effect. What does this mean?

2.  How did the Black Death affect the economy?

3. Refer to the main characteristics of the renaissance art

4. How was chemistry connected to circumnavigation?

5. Find one example of Inversion and one of Passive voice in the text.

6. Research who were the patrons in the renaissance and their relation to the renaissance artists.