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22 Cards in this Set
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condottieri
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military brokers (dealt in mercenaries)
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de' Medici
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wealthy Florentine family
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Visconti
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a despot family in Milan, came to power in 1278
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Sforza
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a despot family in Milan, came to power in 1450
before power, they were condottieri |
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Ludovico il Moro
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member of the Sforza family
1452-1499 Machiavelli's hero |
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Humanism
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a secular, academic view of the world that stressed the beauty and value of every-day life (versus the glories of the after life)
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Francesco Petrarch
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Father of humanism
(1304-1374) |
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Dante Alighieri
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wrote popular pieces in common italian
1265-1321 |
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Giovanni Boccaccio
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pioneer of humanist studies
writer; collected manuscripts |
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Julius Excluded from Heaven
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written by the humanist Erasmus
described Pope Julius II failure to convince St Peter to admit him in to heaven |
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The Prince
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written by Machiavelli
cynically argued that a Prince was amoral and should go about his rule thusly |
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Desiderius Erasmus
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"prince of the humanists"
wrote various books defending humanism and original thought |
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Rudolf Agricola
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father of german humanism
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Utopia
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a conservatice criticism of contemporary society
by Thomas More |
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Thomas More
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best known English humanist
one of Henry VIII's most trusted diplomats his refusal to recognize Anne Boleyn as queen let to his execution in July 1535 |
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Henry the Navigator
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sponsored the portugese exploration of the African coast
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Bartholomew Dias
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rounded the Cape of Good Hope and opened the Portugese Empire in the East
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Vasco da Gama
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reached India in 1498
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pennisulares
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persons originally born in Spain
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creoles
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persons of Spanish descent born in America
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encomienda
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the right to the labor of a specific number of Native Americans
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mita
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labor servitude in the mines of Peru
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