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46 Cards in this Set
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During this time much of the classical culture of Greece and Rome was lost in western Europe.
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Middle Ages
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Rebirth of classical ideas of Greece and Rome
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Renaissance
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Marked the transition from Medieval to Modern time.
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`Renaissance
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Birthplace of the Renaissance.
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Italian City-States (Florence was first)
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The Renaissance began in Northern Italy about
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A.D. 1300
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The Renaissance peaked around
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A.D. 1500
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Emphasized human worth and the importance of the individual.
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Humanism
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Thought system of the Renaissance
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Humanism
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Time of great artistic and intellectual creativity.
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Renaissance
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Focused more on life in this world than on the after life
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Humanist.
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powerful banking family that ruled Florence
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Medici
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The support of the Mdici family helped Florence produce many ________.
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Artists and Scholars
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"Father of Humanism."
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Petrarch
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Assembled a library of ancient greek and Roman manuscript
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Petrarch
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Author of the Prince
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Machiavelli
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The end justifies the means in political actions.
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The Prince
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Was a Guide to leaders on how to gain and keep political power often by ruthless means.
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The Prince
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Renaissance art differed from Medieval art in that it portrayed non-religious subjects and was
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more realistic
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A man talented in many areas
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"Renaissance Man"
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In addition to his paintings like "The last supper" he drew sketches of flying machines
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Leonardo da Vinci
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The best example of the 'Renaissance Man."
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Leonardo da Vinci
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Commissioned by the Pope to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.
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Michelangelo
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A "melancholy genius"who was a sculptor, engineer, painter, architect, and poet.
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Michelangelo.
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While the Renaissance was flowering in Italy Northern Europe was recovering from the _____
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Black Death
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Killed nearly half the people of the Western Europe in the 14th Century.
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Black Death
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The northern Renaissance began in ________.
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Flanders
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Renaissance writers who wanted to reform the church.
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Christian Humanists
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Criticized society by comparing it to an ideal society.
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Utopia
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The Renaissance in Norther Europe was more
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Religious in Nature
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Author of Utopia.
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Thomas Moore
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He was executed because he would not accept Henry VIII as the head of the Church of England
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Thomas Moore
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Erasmus and Thomas Moore were _______
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Christians Humanists
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Renaissance writers often wrote in the
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Vernacular
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Language of the common people.
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Vernacular
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Priest who wanted the common man to be able to read the scripture and fought corruption in the Church.
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Erasmus
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"Leonardo of the North" his engravings often portrayed religious upheaval.
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Albrecht Durer
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His plays often explored the complexity of the individual.
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Shakespeare
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Easter Roman Empire lasted 1000 years after the fall of Rome
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Byzantine
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In 1453, conquered Constatinople, ended the Byzantine Empire and spread the influence of Islam.
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Ottoman Turks
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Helped spread the ideas of both the Renaissance and the Reformation.
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Printing Press
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Inventor of the Printing Press.
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Johann Guttenburg
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Founder of the Protestant Reformation
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Martin Luther
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Broke with the Catholic Church over salvation by faith.
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Martin Luther
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Christians became divided as Catholics and Protestants.
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Reformation
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Freed the owner of time in Purgatory/were granted by the Church.
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Indulgences
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Place of suffering where people go to be purified of the sins and wait to go to heaven.
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Purgatory
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