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73 Cards in this Set
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What is the meaning of the word "Renaissance"?
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Rebirth
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What are the 4 Distingsuishing features of the Renaissance?
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1. Recovery from Devastation if 14th Century.
2. Witnessed Revival of Culture of Classical Greece& Rome. 3. Renewed Emphasis on the individual. 4. Elite Culture vs. Popular Culture reserved to wealthy upper classes. |
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When was the Great Famine?
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1320's
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Where did the Black Death Start?
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Southwest CHina
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Where did it first strike in Europe?
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Italy
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How much of the population did the Black Death kill?
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1/3
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When was the Renaissance?
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14th to 16th Centuries
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Where did Economic & Political Foundations Begin?
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Italian City-States
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What were the 5 Italian City States?
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1. Florence
2. Venice 3. Milan. 4. Rome 5. Naples |
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Who was the ruling family of Florence?
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Medici
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How did Florence make its money?
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Banking
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What was Florence known for?
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textiles
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what sea is located near Venice?
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Adriatic Sea
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Which city had the greatest Martiime Power?
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Venice
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What is the ruling family of Milan?
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Sforza
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Which of the city-states was known for its fashion?
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Milan
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WHo was the ruling famiy of Rome?
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Borgia
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Who was Cesare of Rome the son of?
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Pope Alexander VI
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WHich city-state was ruled by differnt empires?
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Naples
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Wealth from ____ made the Reniassance Possible?
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Trade
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What is Diplomacy?
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Balance of Power between City-States
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Humanism focused more on _______ than the material world
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after life
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What was human life seen as in Humanism?
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A short brutal passage to the next life
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Who was the most important person in Scholasticism?
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St. Thomas Aquinas
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Who was an important scholar in Humanism?
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Petrarch
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When did Petrach live?
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1304 - 1374
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Humans of the REnaissance were devout ____
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Christians
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Renaissance was the .....
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attempt to recover culture of Ancient Greece and Rome
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Who financed the movement towards a Renaissance?
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Merchants
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What are the 3 central Concepts?
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HUmanism
Indivudualism Secularism |
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What was Alberts famous statement about Individualism?
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"Men can do all things if they have the will"
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_____ Involves the basic concern with the material world rather than spirtual
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Secularism
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What are the 7 Liberal Arts?
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1. Grammar
2. Rhetoric 3. Logic 4. Arithmotic 5. Geomotry. 6. Distronomy 7. Music |
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What are the major achievments of Chinggis Khan?
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UNITED MONGOLS.
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What are the major achievments of Khubilai Khan?
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Established the Yuan Dynasty
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What are the major achievments of Tamerlane?
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Brutal Conqueror. Captial at Samarkind.
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What are the major achievments of Osman?
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Built Ottoman EMpire
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What are the major achievments of Mehmed II?
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Captured Constainople and made Instanbul
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Who are the Mongols and where are they from?
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Mongols were nomads. They were from the high steppe lands of eastern Asia.
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How did Genghis Khan rise to power?
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He forged various mongol tribes into one powerful alliance. BUilt the largest empire the world has ever seen.
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What did Karakorum symbolize?
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Symbolized a source of Mongol authoirty superior to the clan or tribe.
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How was it possible for the small mongol army to conquer so much of Eurasia?
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Relied on superior Equestrian skills. Used bows.
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Describe something about Mongols military tactics.
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Mongols placed differnyly ranking as men as leaders so that if a message must be passed on, they only have to pass it to 10 people.
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What lands did Genghis khan conquer?
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Perisa and Northern China and Central Asia
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What happened to Gehgis Khan's empire after his death?
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It was divided into four regional empires
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What were the Mongol Empires by 1300?
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Golden Horde - Steppes north of the Black Sea.
Ilkhanate - China |
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Describe Mongol rule in China
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Mongol overlords saw themselves as superior to chinease subjects.
Allowed contruction of religous buildings |
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How did the Ilkhante Empire end?
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Encountered difficulties in Persia and CHina after death of Khubilai.
Finacial difficulties |
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How did the Yuan Dynasty end?
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Had difficulties with paper.
General population lost confidence in money and prices spiked. |
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What role did the Mongols play in the Black Death?
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The mongols promoted trade and communitcation - this hepled spread the disease and moved from one provence to another.
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Who was Temiijin and when did he live?
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He was a Mongol Conqueror.
(1167 - 1227) |
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What was Karakorum?
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A command center for Temiijins Empire
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When was the Yuan dynasty and who ruled it?
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1279 - 1369. ruled by CHinease.
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What is Kamikaze?
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A japanese term meaning "divine wind".
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What areas did Tamerlane Conquer? What happened to it when he died?
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Inda, Persia, Anatolia and North AFrica. His grandons split it up into 4 empires.
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Who were the Ottomans?
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An empire built after Osman declared indepedence. Originated in North Anatolia.
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What was the "little ice age"? When did it occur?
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When tempertures were muich cooler than in the era. 1300 - 1800
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What are some symptoms of the Black Plague?
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Inflamed lymph nodes.
Discolored Inflamations |
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When and how did the Black Death spread into and through Europe?
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Spread through trade routes. 1300 - 1400.
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How did the Yuan Dynasty end?
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Financial Mismanagement. Serious economic difficulties.
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Who was Hongwu?
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A orphaned, poor, beggar, who entered a monastery to ensure clothes and foof. Eventually became Emperor.
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How did Ming Emperors lead China to a cultural Revival?
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The encouraged people to stop using Mongolian names and wearing their clothes.
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What were the two important elements the State Building efforts of the late middle ages involved?
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Devolopement of Fresh Sources of Finance.
Maintanence of Large Standing Armies |
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Who was Masaccio?
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Italian Reniassace Painter. (1401-1428)
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Who was Leaonardo Da VInci?
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Italian Reniassiance Painter. (1452 - 1519)
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Who was Donatello?
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Italian Reniassance Sculptor. (1386 - 1466)
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Who was MichaelAngelo Buonarotti?
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Italian Renaissance Sculptor. (1475 - 1564)
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Who was Filippo Brunelleschi?
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Florentine Arhtiect. (1377 - 1446)
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When was the Late Middle Ages?
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Period from (1300 - 1500). TIme when internal problems and plague complicated European Piolitcal affairs
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What was the Hundreds Year War?
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1337 - 1453. Series of intermiteen campaigns in which the warring factions saught control of land in France.
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Significance of Fernando & Isabel.
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Married in 1469. Combined theur reigns of Castile and Aragon. Two wealthies Iberian Realms.
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Who was Ivan III?
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Regined 1462 - 1505. Grand Prince
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What is Muscovy?
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The principality ruled from Moscow.
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