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What years did the Renaissance encompass?
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1300-1600
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The start of the Renaissance was based largely on the wealth of whom?
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Merchants
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Someone who possessed the learning that Reaissance scholars believed a civilized person should have was called a what?
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Humanist
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The city that led the REaissance in artistic excellence was?
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Florence
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Around 1500, the rise in power of hte popes brought Renaissance to what city?
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Rome
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What was a florin?
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A gold coin
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When an author writes in the everyday language of his or her homeland, they are using what?
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Vernacular
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Which European country led the explorations of the African coast?
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Portugal
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In the late 1400s and early 1500s, what two countries argued over their land claims in the Americas?
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Spain and Portugal
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A picture that uses slanting lines and objects of different sizes to give a feeling of depth is said to have what?
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perspective
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