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30 Cards in this Set
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What is a Patron?
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a person who provides financial support for the arts.
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what is humanism?
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A cultural and intellectual movement of the Renaissance that emphasized secular concerns as a result of the rediscovery and study of the literature, art, and civilization of ancient Greece and Rome.
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What is one work by each of the three artists, Rapheal, Michelangelo and L. Da Vinci?
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Sistine Chapel - Michelangelo , The School of Athens - Rapheal , Mona Lisa - Leonardo Da Vinci
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Whats a Pieta? Whats a Madonna?
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a representation of the Virgin Mary mourning over the body of the dead Christ, usually shown held on her lap.
-a picture or statue representing the Virgin Mary. |
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Whats Machiavellian?
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Suggestive of or characterized by expediency, deceit, and cunning.
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Whats an Indulgence?
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in the roman catholic church, pardon for sins committed during a persons lifetime.
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What does Recant mean?
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give up ones views or beliefs.
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Whats a theocracy?
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a form of government in which God or a deity is recognized as the supreme civil ruler, the God's or deity's laws being interpreted by the ecclesiastical authorities.
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Whats predestination?
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idea that god long ago will determine who will gain salvation. `
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What were the 95 theses?
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arguements agaisnt indulgences
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"I die the ___ good ___ but gods ___ ? " this quote was said by??
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kings, servent, first --Thomas More
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Whats anti-semitism?
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discrimination against or prejudice or hostility toward Jews.
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" I am the state" was said by?
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Louis XIV
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Whats a Limited Monarchy?
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a monarchy that is limited by laws and a constitution
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What is an Absolute Monarchy?
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Rule by one person — a monarch, usually a king or a queen — whose actions are restricted neither by written law nor by custom; a system different from a constitutional monarchy and from a republic.
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Whats divine right?
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The doctrine that monarchs derive their right to rule directly from God and are accountable only to God.
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Whats westernization?
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to influence with ideas, customs, practices, etc., characteristic of the Occident or of the western U.S.
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Who won at Waterloo?
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British
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What does Nationalism mean?
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devotion and loyalty to one's own nation
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Whats Imperialism?
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domination by one country of the political, economic, or cultural life of another country or region.
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Whats Militarism?
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glorification of the military.
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Pacifism is?
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opposition to all war.
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Who sent an ultimatum?
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austria sent it to serbia
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WWI lasted how many years, and what years?
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4 years, 1914-1918
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What is realism?
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the tendency to view or represent things as they really are.
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What is capitalism?
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economic system in which the means of production are privatly owned and operated for profit
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What is communism?
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(form of socialism) the creation of a classless society in which all wealth and property would be owned by the community as a whole.
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"All roads lead to___"
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rome
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"The ___ the was Greece"
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glory
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The renaisance began in? What years was it between?
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Italy, 1300-1600
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