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15 Cards in this Set
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Major courses and the job market |
Major courses designed to prepare you for the job market |
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General education courses |
Help provide job skills and make you a better citizen |
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Reasons to study history |
Learn lessons from the past to use for the present |
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Dante and the Devine Comedy |
A book about the 3 places of afterlife; inferno, purgatory, and heaven |
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Palo and the Battle of San Ramano |
Was a set of 3 paintings of the Battle of San Ramano, found in Florence, London, and Paris |
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Problems during the late middle ages |
The Black Death, the Hundred Years' War, and the conflict with Christianity |
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The Black Death |
The bubonic plague, spread by rats and fleas, mortality rate over 50%, lead to persecution of the Jews |
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Babylonian captivity |
The pope moving the center of the church to Avignon instead of Rome. |
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The Great Schism |
The period of time when there were 2 and even 3 popes. Power struggle contributed to the lack of trust in the church |
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Invention of canons |
Was a military advancement the made castles irrelevant |
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Invention of the printing press |
Invented by Johannes Gutenberg, many more books could be produced which helped literacy and lead to the Protestant reformation |
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Renaissance |
Centered mainly in Italian city states. Recovered from problems of the past. Increased emphasis on writing. Competition leads to expansion. |
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Machiavelli and the prince |
Was a book about how to gain and keep power. How to be a leader, be conservative with money not liberal. Didn't believe in utopia. |
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Renaissance art |
Most famous and best during this time. Use of geometry, perspective, and 3D. Sculptures and portrayals of the body. |
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Da Vinci and the last supper |
A painting of the last supper of Jesus and the disciples. Painted in a door way of a kitchen, so the bottom of Jesus' feet were cut off. |
