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24 Cards in this Set
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1400's
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Quattrocento
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1500's
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Cinquecento
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humanistic aspect of Renaissance
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Virtu
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studied the Latin classics to learn what they reveal about human nature
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Humanism
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pressure group instituted to protected the interests of the commoners
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Popolo
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800 years in the Middle Ages during which several Christian kingdom of the Iberian Peninsula succeeded in retaking it from the Muslims
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Reconquista
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an alliance of trading cities and their guilds that established and maintained trade monopoly along the coast
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Hanseatic League
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rule of merchant aristocracies
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oligarchy
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cause for this war ---> English crown lay claim to the Aquintaine in France
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The Hundred Years War
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series of regional wars brought on by the efforts of the great European powers to control the small independent states of Italy
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Habsburg-Valois War
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a philosophical system founded chiefly on Platonic doctrine and oriental mysticism holds that all existence consists of emanations from the one with who the soul may be reunited
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Neo-Platonism
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the belief in material things instead of religious things
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secularism
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a style in the fine arts that is characterized by a complex perspective system, elongation of forms, strained gestures or poses of figure
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mannerism
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a picture employing techniques esp. one in which it is prominent; a visible, esp. one in which it extends distance
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perspective
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despot rulers
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signoria
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a state in which the supreme power rests in the body of citizens
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republic
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a sovereign state consisting of an autonomous city with its dependencies
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city-state
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mercentary generals of private armies hired by cities for military purposes
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condottieri
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the council from 1414-1418 that succeeded in ending the Great Schism in the RCC
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Council of Constance
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treaty b/t Venice and Milan ending the war of succession to the Milanese duchy in favor of Francesco Sforza
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Peace of Lodi
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a form of bubonic plague that spread over Europe in the 14th century and killed an estimated quarter of the population
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Black Death
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exile of the popes @ Avignon
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Babylonian Captivity
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a period of division in RCC over papal succession during which there werer 2 or sometimes 3
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Great Schism
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conference of RCC in 1409 to attempt the Great Schism
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Council of Pisa
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