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Perspective

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Helps artists create realistic drawings

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Patron

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A financial supporter of the arts

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Leonardo daVinci

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Painted the Mona Lisa and last supper

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Petrarch

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Assembled a library of Ancient Greek and roman books

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Erasmus

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Priest who helped spread Renaissance ideas

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Vernacular

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Everyday language of ordinary people

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Thomas Moore

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Social reformer who wrote Utopia

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Johann Gutenberg

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Inventor of the printing press

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Albrecht durer

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Artist who was strongly influenced by the Italian Renaissance

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Theocracy

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Government run by religious leaders

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Predestination

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Idea that God has already determined who gets salvation

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Indulgence

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Seen as a way to buy entry into heaven

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Ghetto

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Separate part of a city reserved for Jews

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Sect

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A religious group that has broken away from the established church

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Elizabeth I

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Forged compromise on matters on faith

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Scientific method

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A step by step process of discovering scientific facts

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Nicolaus copernicus

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Heliocentric theory advocate

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Hypothesis

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A scientists explanation for why some things happen

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Gravity

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A force that keeps planets in their orbit around the sun

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Galileo

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He was forced to say that the earth was the center of the universe

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Niccolo Machiavelli

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Wrote the prince-advised rulers to be ruthless

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How did Italy’s location make it the starting point of the renaissance

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It’s location allowed trade with the Mediterranean world

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How was renaissance are different from the art of the middle ages

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It’s stress realism, was sometimes nonreligious

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What are the main ideas expressed in Machiavelli’s The Prince

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A ruler should be ruthless to maintain power

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What was the importance of the invention of the printing press

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People could be exposed to new ideas

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What were Rubens, Van Eyck, and Bruegel known for

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They were Northern Renaissance painters

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What were Rabelais, Shakespeare, and Cervantes known for?

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They were playwrights

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What were the main factors that led to the Protestant reformation

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Anger at indulgences, worldliness at the Catholic Church

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What were Martin Lutheran primary religious beliefs

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Salvation was achieved by faith alone

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What did Anabaptists believe

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Separation of church and state, toleration, adult baptism

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What was the purpose of the Council of Trent

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To reform the Catholic Church and to roll back the Protestant Reformation

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Florence

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Birthplace of the Italian Renaissance

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What were the goals of the catholic reformation

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To reform the Catholic Church

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Why was copernicus’ theory considered revolutionary

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The contradicted the teachings of the Catholic Church

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Why did scientist begin to repeat their experiment

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To refine and improve their hypotheses

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What were the main contributions of Isaac Newton to science

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He Explained gravity and movements of the planets

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How did Renaissance artists reflect the ideas of humanism in their art

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They painted well-known people of the day

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What was the importance of the peace of Augsburg

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German princes could decide to religion for their land

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What were the important beliefs of Rene Descartes

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He emphasized reason in philosophy

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How did humanist scholars differ from medieval thinkers

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They focused on worldly subjects

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What does it mean to be canonized

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Process to make someone a Saint

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