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Ch 10 Renaissance Flashcards

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Characteristics of European Renaissance

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  • urban society
  • long distance trade increased
  • focus on humanities
  • celebrate individual achievements
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Renaissance renewed interest in..

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Art, literature, science, learning

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What are the humanities?

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Subjects like grammar, rhetoric, poetry etc…

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Humanism

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An emphasis on individual accomplishment, less religious, more secular

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What caused the Renaissance?

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  • increased trade
  • growth of city-states
  • interest in Greek/roman art
  • rise of wealthy merchants
  • desire for scientific knowledge
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What was Renaissance art like?

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  • Reflected human concerns
  • realistic
  • perspective
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Leonardo da Vinci

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Renaissance man, painted Mona Lisa

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Painted Cistine chapel, sculpted David

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Michelangelo

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Painted “school of Athens”

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Rafael

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Wrote the prince

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Niccolo Machiavelli

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What were Niccolo’s ways

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Harsh, no morality in gov, cruelty is only way

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How did Renaissance ideas and art spread?

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Through trade

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Johannes Gutenberg invented

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Printing press

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The Roman Catholic Church had…

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  • power
  • wealth
  • corruption
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John Wycliffe

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English priest who translated bible into English

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Jan Hus

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Preached against church’s immorality, burned at stake

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Matin Luther

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German priest, wrote 95 theses

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What are the 95 theses?

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Grievances against the church

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ML translated bible into

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German

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ML said that God’s grace…

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Cannot be earned by works

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Protestant

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Non Catholic Christian

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John Calvin

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French, predestination, Calvinism

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John Knox

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Scottish, Presbyterian church

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Henry VIII

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Wanted divorce, created Church of England

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Counter reformation

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Church began reforms

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Jesuit

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Concentrated on edu, renewed church spirituality, run like military, established schools and missions

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Council of Trent

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Redefined doctrines of church, got rid of indulgences

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Inquisition

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  • Fight Protestants

- wanted religious uniformity

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Religious effects of Renaissance

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  • RCC no longer only power
  • sent missionaries to new world
  • Jews persecuted by all Christian groups
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Geocentric theory

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Earth is center of universe

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Rene Descartes and Francis Bacon came up with…

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Scientific Method

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Copernicus

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Heliocentric universe

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Galileo

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Built telescope, proved heliocentric theory, tried by inquisition

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Isaac Newton

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Gravity, Calculus, laws of motion

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Biology discoveries

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Circulatory system, cells, bacteria

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Robert Boyle

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Atoms/molecules, affects on gasses

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Chemistry findings

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  • periodic table

- law of conservation of matter

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Science explained world through

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Facts and reasoning

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What did the church think of this new science?

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They didn’t like it at first but they gradually accepted it

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Causes of scientific revolution

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  • Expansion of trade
  • development of scientific method
  • study if ancient authorities
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Effects of scientific revolution

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  • beginning of modern science
  • belief in reason
  • new view of universe
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Why was Italy a good location for the Renaissance historically?

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It was the original center of Roman civilization

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What caused the Protestant reformation?

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The church’s abuse of power and greed for money

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Why were astronomers a threat to Church authority?

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Their ideas challenged Christian beliefs; that the heavens were unmoving and perfect

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What made the scientific method so new?

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They used to base science off of the bible and philosophy, but now they use experimentation and observation

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Sir Thomas Moore

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Humanist, defined utopian society

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