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Chapter 12 terms Flashcards

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new monarchies

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france, england, spain, and germany made new monarchies to centralize their government

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civic humanism

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belief that people need to be involved with politics and state

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entrepreneur

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organizes and operates a business

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estates

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social hierarchy divided in 3 estates (1-clergy, 2-nobility, 3-peasants)

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hermeticism

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religious tradition based on writings of hermes trismegistus

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humanism

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focus more on human based life rather than religion aspect, liberal arts and humanities

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individualism

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people were secular from the church, could do anything by themselves

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neo-platonism

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following plato about philosophy and recognised the great chain of being, plato in christianity

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nepotism

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favoring relatives or friends by giving them jobs

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pantheism

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seeing divinity in all aspects of life

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renaissance

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rebirth of everything, started in florence (1400),

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secularism

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separation from church

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leonardo bruni

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humanist, wrote about cicero, “the renaissance man”

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erasmus

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humanist, talked about church, dutch, stayed with henry VIII, supported Luther, wanted to reform but not destroy catholicism, infuenced luther

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hanseatic league

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middle low german area, confederation that was composed of merchant towns, flanders-most important trade centers

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lorenzo valla

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italian humanist and educator that exposed historical hoaxes

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johannes gutenberg

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invented printing press

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first estate

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clergy

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l’uomo universale

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renaissance man

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third estate

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peasants

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medici family

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cloth; commerce; realestate; banking; controlled florence (cosimo and his grandson lorenzos)

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mirandolo, oration on the dignity of man

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wrote about the great chain man

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castiglione, book of a courtier

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wrote about renaissance man

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machiavelli, the prince

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prince should be feared than loved, kicked out of florence, forced to give up politics

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michaelangelo

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david, pieta, sistine chapel

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raphael

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inspired by michaelangelo, school of athens

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da vinci

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closest thing to renaissance man drew anatomy of human body (arms), monalissa, inventions, left handed, wrote backwards, and didn’t talk about his work

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isabella d’Este

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first feminist, ruled mantua when husband died, intellectual, “first lady of the world”

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lollards

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followers of john wyclif (see below)

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john wyclif

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attacked the papacy and christian beliefs in the medieval period denounced their temporal authority

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john hus

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attacked excessive power of the papcy within the church, declared free, but then died, hussite wars

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hussite wars

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caused by john hus death

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frequens

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said that the church woul;d convene to ensure that the church was still reforming

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sacrosancta

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stated that a general council of the church received its authority

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regiomantanus

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lunar distances used to determine longitude of sea

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war of roses

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england, lancaster and york to fight for english crown, lancaster won: became henry tudor (VII)

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Charles VII

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dauphin see above

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Louis XI

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king, universal spider, got a bunch of land when father died (Charles VII) France

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Ferdinand and Isabella

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inquisition, royal councils: chose their own clergymen,

“Spanishness”

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Maximilian I

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became holy roman emperor, tried to centralize parliament administratrion, (

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Charles V

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son of philip and joanna, ruler of habsburd, burgundian, and spanish territories. habsburg-valois wars with francis I (wanted to be HRE)- surrounded by charles V’s territories (wants unification under catholicism) etc

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Tudors

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Henry Tudors eliminated livery and maintenance, established star chamber (Henry VII)

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livery and maintenance

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practice by which wealthy aristocrats maintained private armies of followers dedicated to the service of their lord

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star chamber

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did not use juries and allowed torture to be used to extract confessions

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Henry VIII

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annulment; act of supremacy; treason act; anglican church; wives: catherine of aragon, anne boleyn, jane seymour, anne cleves, catherine howard, catherine parr (lived, beheaded, died, lived, beheaded, survived)

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moriscos

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people of muslim background who converted to catholicism during the inquisition

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marranos

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people of jewish background who converted to catholicism during the inquisition

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hasbsburgs

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holy roman empire remained in the hands of the habsburg dynasty, see maximilian and Charles V

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spanish inquisition

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Ferdinand and Isabella asked the pope to introduce the inquisition into spain in 1478 (under royal control); killed moriscos and marranos to purify spain

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charles the bold

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duke of burgundy, attempted to create middle kingdom between france and germany, died fighting the swiss- Louis XI added Charles the bold’s possessions to his own lands

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pope julius II

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warrior pope- most involved in war and politics

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