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Renaissance
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Means Rebirth over the 1300's - 1500's rebirth of Antiquity or Greco-Roman civilization
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Jacob Burckhardt
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Swiss historian and art critic in the 1800's Wrote the Book The Civilization of the Renaissance In Italy
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Leon Battista Alberti
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A Florentine architect in the 15th century created the social ideal of the universal person that could excel at many things
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Hanseatic League
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A commercial and military league in Northern Germany Coastal towns in the 1500's 80 cities belonged to the league also established in England and northern Europe
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House of Medici
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Florence Italy commerce, real estate, and banking. main bankers for the Papacy. 1500's collapsed due to bad investments but slowly gained back power
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Castiglione's Book of the Courtier
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The book was published in 1528 considered a hand book for European Aristocrats expected a well rounded education
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condottieri
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sold the services of there bands wreaked havoc on the country side
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Cosimo d'Medici
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Was the ruler behind the Curtains devised the system of taxation
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The Papal States
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Central Italy cities that became independent of papal rule
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Isabella d'Este
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daughter of Duke of Ferrara a famous Renaissance wife married Francesco Gonzaga court was important center of art and learning in the Renaissance
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peace of Lodi
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Italian states signed it ended a half century of war
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