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Benvenuto Cellini
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-A goldsmith and sculptor who wrote an autobiography, famous for its arrogance and immodest self-praise.
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Baroque
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-The sensuous and dynamic style of art of the Counter Reformation.
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Charles I
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Charles I (1625-1649) - Stuart king who brought conflict with Parliament to a head and was subsequently executed.
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Absolutism
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-The theory that the monarch is supreme and can exercise full and complete power unilaterally
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Aristotelian-Ptolemaic cosmology
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-the geocentric view of the universe that prevailed from the fourth century B.C. to the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and accorded with church teachings and Scriptures.
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Aristotelian-Ptolemaic cosmology
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XFrance prior to the French Revolution
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Banalities
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-Fees that peasants were obligated to pay landlords for the use of the village mill, bakeshop and winepress
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Francis Bacon
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(1561-1626}inductive thinker who stressed experimentation in arriving at truth.
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Bill of Rights (1689) -
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English document declaring that sovereignty resided with Parliament.
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Duke of Alva
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Duke of Alva (1508-1582 - Military leader sent by Philip n to pacify the Low Countries.
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Brethren of the Common Life-
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Pious laypeople In sixteenth-century Holland who Initiated a religious revival in their model of Christian living.
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condoittiere
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Condottiere-A mercenary soldier of a political ruler.
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humanism
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Humanism-The recovery and study of classical authors and writings.
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John Calvin
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John Calvin (1509-1564) - A French theologian who established a theocracy In Geneva and is best known for his theory of predestination.
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Armada
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Armada (1588) - Spanish vessels defeated in the English Channel by an English fleet, thus preventing Philip II's invasion of England.
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