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24 Cards in this Set
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Describe the Merchant Class in the Italian Renaissance
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-had the latest technology
-brought in highly values items lime medicine, spices, silks, and porcelains -earned about 500% from spice trade -traded with arabs |
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Medici Family
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-merchant family gone into -banking
-involved in almost every aspect of Italian Life. -WELL CONNECTED!!! -dynasty for centuries later |
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Oligarchies
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-committees of wealthy and powerful people
-small percentage of people. -only men |
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Condottieri
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hired foreign mercenaries
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Why and by whom were the Italian City States over run by?
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-They never became politically unified, making them vulnerable
-over run by early 16th by French and Spaniards |
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conquered greek city-states in 300 bc
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Phillip of Macedon
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*-------* took over all aspects of greek culture in 146 bc EXCEPT *-------*
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Romans; Language
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Life for most people in the medieval period was
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Short and difficult. Most people were peasants bound to the land.
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Christian Church
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Mainly everyone.
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Crusades
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vain attempt to wrestle back holy lands from Muslims. Crusaders brought back silks
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Bubonic Plague
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aka Black Death
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2 major technological advances
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Gunpowder-led to muskets and cannons vs longbows/sword
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Christian Humanists
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-more spritiual
-less materialistic -questioned morality and ethics |
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Fugger Family
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German version of the Medici's
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Thomas More
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-Wrote Utopia
-coined the word for "ideal place" |
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Erasumus
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-beleived in goodness of Humanity
-emphasized life and Jesus |
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To whom did humanism among the weathy bring education to?
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Women
-taught classical languages |
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Mysticism
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pursuit of communion with god through direct experience
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Brothers and Sisters of the common life
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-Lay common group broken off from traditional church in renaissance Netherlands
-men and women lived separately and communally -not monks or nuns -nonbinding -established schools, releived the poor -raised Erasmus |
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New Monarchies of the Renaissance
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-Tudors(English)
-Valois(France) -Habsburgs (Holy Roman Empire) |
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Henry VII
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-First tudor monarch
-Star Chamber:roay court for offending nobility |
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Unification of Spain in 1469
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-Marraie of Isabella of Castile and Ferdinand of Aragon
-combined kindoms -no common gov, admin, political institutions -only commonality was Roman Catholic |
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Spanish Inquisition
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-Church Court
-Under order of I&F -ordered Jews and Muslims to convert to Catholicism or leave |
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German States in Renaissance
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-did not unify
-each state ran as its own rules -strung together under holy roman empire under austrian emperor |
