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Cosmo de Medici ruled for ___ years

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Medici

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Mankind family ruling Florence in 1478. Almost assassinated by the Pazzi family. Part of the signory (a council ruling Florence). Giovanni payed for hospitals and churches. Usury.

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Casino de medici’s grandsons name?

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Lorenzo

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Dante

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Author of divine comedy.

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What’s divine come day about

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Virgil going through hell purgatory and heaven (with beatrice)

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Dante importance

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Wrote about real people
Interest in the common man
Wrote in the vernacular
Brought together religion and worldly views

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Petrarch

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Italian poet (considered first modern poet)

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Petrarch importance

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Broke from the Medieval courtly conventions and defined true love (with Laura)
Wrote with simplicity and purity
Studied classical texts and followed their example

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Machiavelli

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Author of the prince. One of Florence’s leading patriots. Soderini’s secretary for 14 years. Thrown in jail and tortured by Medici family.

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In the prince what defeated Cesare

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Bad luck

Didn’t kill the entire family that came before him

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What does Machiavellian mean?

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Cleverly dishonest

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Ideal renaissance man

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Not tall not short
Understand that fights may happen
Be quick to take advantage
Courage
Prudence
Only fights for honor
Daring
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Idea renaissance woman

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Prudence
Magnanimity 
Continence 
Kindness
Discretion
Ability to manage property
Smart
Doesn't talk about shit she doesn't know about
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Linear perspective

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Use of parallel lines receding in the distance to create depth

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Vernacular

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Native language to the place it’s written

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Da Vinci

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Artist-painted
Scientist-dissected bodies
Engineer-inventions
Known for wondering, exploring, and a curious mind
Didn't complete most works
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Da Vinci works

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The last supper

Mona Lisa

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Donatello

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Known for being one of the greatest sculptors in both marble and bronze

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Donatello works

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David
Saint George
Equestrian

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Michelangelo

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Artist-painter
Sculpture-marble
Engineer 
Poet
Known for ill temper, outbursts, very modest
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Michelangelo works

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Sistine chapel
David
Pieta

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Raphael

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Known for painting Madonna and child

Taught by Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo

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Raphael works

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School of Athens

Madonnas

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Masaccio work

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Trinity

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Ghiberti work

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Bronze doors of Baptistry in Florence

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Brunelleschi work

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Dome in Florence

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Miguel de Cervantes country works and achievements

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Spain
Don Quixote de La Mancha
Exposed inadequacies of the chivalratic idealism. Satire

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Pieter Brueghel the elder country works and achievements

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Netherlands (Fladers)
Village squares, landscapes, every day life
Painted with expert eye for detail. Realism.

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Francois Rabelais country works achievements

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France
Gargantua and Pantagruel
Showed hypocrisy in Church and Politics. Satire.

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William Shakespeare country works and achievements

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England
37 total
Showed real emotion, realism.

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Alberect dürer country works and achievements

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Germany
Numerous wood cuts and engravings
Realism, symbolism, gothic art

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Jan Van Eyck country works and achievements

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Netherlands (Flanders)
Arnolfini and wife
Perfected oil painting, realism

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Paint made with egg and powder

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Tempura

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Chiaroscuro

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Use of shadowing to inhabited and make more realistic

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Visual effect that makes things far away look smaller

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Foreshortening

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Painting on wet plaster

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Fresco

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Humanism

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Study and popularization of Classic Greek and roman texts

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37
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Painter of the ambassador

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Holbein

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Painter of the Tudors

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Holbein

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39
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4 problems wit church during Reformation

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War
Political power
Wasting money on luxuries
Selling of indulgences

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Martin Luther

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German monk and catholic priest
Disagree with abuses of church
1527 posted 95 theses in church door
It questioned and protested sale of indulgences and corruption

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Invented of moveable type

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Johann Gutenburg

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Johannes tetzel

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German Dominican friar. Preached indulgences. Sparked Luther’s reaction. In effect he became a salesman whose product revolved into the reformation.

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Roman Catholic

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Salvation comes from good deeds
Leaders pick next leaders
Pope’s interpretation of bible is law
Indulgences

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Lutheran church

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Salvation comes from belief in God
Bible is the only authority
Priests were allowed to marry and wear normal clothes

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Calvinistic church

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Predestination (predetermined fate at birth)
Theocracy
Doctrine of hard work

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Similarities of Lutheranism and Calvinism

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Christian
Simple humble lives
Choose church leader

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Theocracy

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Country is run by religious leaders

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Predestination

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Fate is decided at birth

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Counter Reformation (Catholic Reformation)

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Catholic Church trying to fix itself so people stop leaving.
Pope Paul IIII created the council of Trent-leads the reform from within, gets rid of indulgences.
Society of Jesus goes to war with the Protestants.

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Founder of the society of Jesus

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Ignatius Loyola

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51
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Society of Jesus

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Jesuits

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Copernicus

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Refused the idea that the sun and planets orbited around the earth, had no proof. Polish churchman, heliocentric theory. Father of scientific revolution.

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Copernicus works

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On the revolution of heavenly spheres

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Galileo

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Made the telescope. Verified Copernican theory. Father of experimental science. Discovered the moon has craters. 2 different objects of different weights hit the ground at the same time. Forced to deny his works were valid

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Galileo works

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De Monty
Starry messenger
System of the world
Telescope

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Newton

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Gravity. Optics. Light consists of a spectrum of colors. Newtons cannon. Gravity keeps moon in orbit. Calculus.

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Newtons 3 laws

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Object in motion will stay in motion.
Force=mass*acceleration
Every action has a counter action.

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58
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Newtons works

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Principia

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Wollstonecraft

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Moshe stressed equal woman’s rights and opportunity

Right to education

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Wollstonecraft works

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Vindication on the rights of women

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Kepler

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German Astronomer. Developed logarithms to calculate rudolphine tables.
Laws of planetary motion. Mathematically proved planet moved in an eclipse not and orbit. Proved Copernican theory.

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Laws of Motion

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Elliptical orbit (not circular). 
A line joining planets sweep out equal ares of intervals of time. 
Square of orbital period of planet is proportional with axis if orbit
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Hobbes

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Questioned if women were naturally subordinate men. People are naturally cruel, greedy, selfish.

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Hobbes works

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Leviathan

The social contract (similar to absolute monarchy)

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Voltaire (+works)

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I disagree with what you say but will defend to the death your right to say it. Freedom of speech
Candide

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Smith

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Scottish father of economics
Free market should regulate business
Laissez Faire

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Smith’s work

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On the wealth of nations

68
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Sun is center

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Heliocentric

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Earth is center

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Geocentric

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Bacon

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Successful political career. New system if thought. Scientific method. Inductive reasoning (based in experiments)

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Bacon’s work

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Novum Organum

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Descartes

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Rejected every accepted idea he could. I think therefore I am. Math/human consciousness. Animals don’t have souls. Deductive reasoning (based on widely accepted rules)

73
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Descartes works

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Principles of philosophy. Discourse on method.

74
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Locke

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Refused Devine right. Tried to destroy absolute monarchy. People are basically reasonable and moral. Right to liberty and property. Government protects people. Right to overthrow leaders.

75
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Locke works

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Second treatise on civil government

Essay concerning human understanding.

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Rousseau

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Glorified human impulses. Heart over mind. Democracy. Naturally good, community comes first. “Born free but everywhere are chains”. Believed women were naturally below men, belong in house, no education.

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Rousseau works

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Philosophe
The social contract
Discourse in science and arts

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Montesquieu

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One of the earliest critics of absolutism. Separation of powers protects liberty. Branches of government.

79
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Montesquieu works

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Persian letters

The spirit of laws

80
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Diderot work

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Encyclopédie

81
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Natural rights

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Laws govern human nature

You are born with certain rights

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Boyle

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Better volume formula. Amount if space has uses depends in pressure. Corrected idea that everything was made of 3 or 4 elements. Proved chemistry a science.

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Boyle works

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New experiments physicomechanical, touching the spring air and it’s effects, the skeptical chemist

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Lavoisier

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French chemist. Got gold medal from kind. Theory of combustion.

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Lavoisier works

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Traitor elementrine de chimie

86
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Priestly

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Discovered CO2+water= soda water. Said to have discovered oxygen (first to publish about it). Mouse under cup experiment.

87
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Priestly works

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Experiments and observations on different kinds of air, over 150 total works.

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Cavendish

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First to recognize hydrogen as a gas. Composition of water. Measured sir Issac Newtons gravitational constant. First accurate measurement of density of earth. Discovered electric potential.

89
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Cavendish’s first paper

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Factitious airs

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Leeuwenhoek

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Microscope. Discovered bacteria, cells, protazoa. Father of microbiology.

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Hooke’s law

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Amount of elastic material will stretch when external stress is placed on it

92
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Maria merian

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Butterflies.

Works: insects in Surinam, never blimenbuch, wonderful transformation.

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Vesalius

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Human anatomy. Dissections. Scientific experiments must be repeated for accuracy.
Work: on the fabric of the human body

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Harvey

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Embryology and blood flown heart is a pump

Works: de montu cordis, de generations

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Fauchard

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Father of modern dentistry. Designed dentures.

Work: lechirugien

96
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Spanish adventurers

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Conquistadors

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Aztec agricultural system

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Chinampas

98
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Quipus

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Multi colored tangles if string possibly used by the Inca for writing.

99
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Magellan year sailing for place reached claim to fame

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1519
Spain
East coast of South America, Pacific Ocean
1st to circumnavigate the world

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Prince Henry the Navigator date sailing for place reached claim to fame

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Early 1400’s
Portugal
Azores, Madeira Islands, care verde
Navigation school, sponsored voyages

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Columbus date sailing for place reached claim to fame

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1492
Spain
Caribbean
“Discovered” the new world

102
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John Cabot date sailing for place reached claim to fame

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1497
England
Newfoundland
Newfoundland

103
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Cortes date sailing for place reached claim to fame

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1519
Spain
Mexico
Spain ruled Mexico, conquered Aztecs

104
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Pizarro date sailing for place reached claim to fame

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1532
Spain
Peru
Ruled west coast of South America, conquered incas

105
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Inca height of empire

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1500’s

106
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At height inca population/languages

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10million people

200 languages

107
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Incan empire was between

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Ecuador and chile (3500 miles)

108
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Incan capital

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Cuzco

109
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Incan cultural foundations turned into

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Art
Agriculture
Engineering
Imperial organization

110
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Inca has continuos ____

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War

111
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Incan nobles had ____

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Royal lineage

112
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Incan woman shared ____ with husbands

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Values

113
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Incans had ___ on every ____

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Regulations

Aspect of life

114
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Incan homes were

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Circular

115
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Edict of Nantes

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Henry IV
1598
Gave Protestants rights

116
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Mercantilism

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More goes out than comes into economy

117
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Elizabeth I

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Youngest daughter of Henry VIII
Last Tudor monarch
Ended war with France
Improved economy
Restored Anglican Church
English Renaissance reached peak during her reign
Golden age
Excommunicated in 1570
118
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Laissez Faire

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Free market

119
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Patron

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Person who gives financial support to a person, organization, cause, activity, ect.

120
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City-state

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A city that with it’s surrounding territory forms an independent state

121
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Renaissance

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Rebirth

122
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Why Renaissance began in Italy

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There were ruins of Ancient Rome
City states
Wealth
Invention of printing press

123
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French Protestant

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Huguenot

124
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Author of the Prince

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Machiavelli

125
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“Better to be hated than loved”

Said by____

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Machiavelli

126
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Giotto

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Italian painter

127
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In which painting was linear perspective perfected?

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Trinity

128
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How renaissance spread

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Printing press
Books in the vernacular
Merchants

129
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What renaissance led to

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Reformation

130
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Northern Renaissance

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Religious reformation

131
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How printing press affected reformation

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Allowed for mass production and distribution of reformation ideas

132
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Protestant reformation

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16 century movement

Created new sects of Christianity

133
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Council of Trent

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Catholic church’s attempt to fix itself

134
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95 theses

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Martin Luther’s attack on indulgences, put on church door

135
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Why Henry VIII split church

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For a divorce

136
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Index of forbidden books

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List of books banned by church

137
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Instruments used for astronomical measurements

Calculates latitude

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Astrolabe

138
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Middle passage

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A sea journey undertaken by slave ships from West Africa to the West Indies

139
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Were Aztecs lived

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Central America

140
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caravel

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A small, fast Spanish or Portuguese ship

141
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Armada

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Fleet of ships

142
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Divine right

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Right to rule from god

143
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30 year war

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A series of wars in Central Europe beginning in 1618 starting from conflicts between Protestants and Catholics and political struggles between the Holy Roman Empire and other powers.

144
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Versailles

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Hunting place turned palace by Louis XIV

145
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Parliament

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Legislature

146
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Characteristics of an absolute monarch

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Ruled by one person
Power is hereditary
Complete rule
Abuse of power

147
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Catherine the Great

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Empress of Russia

148
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Louis XIV

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Revoked Edict of Nantes
Wasted money
Wasted money 
Versailles
Unified France
Got new territory
Lots of war
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Philip II

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Defeated at battle of Rocroi
War exhausted Spain and England
Rebelled in Aragon
Fought Pope Clement VIII
Died in 1598
Made peace with France
Bankrupt Spain
Edict of Nantes
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James I

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Believed in Divine right
Hated parliament
Perseud unpopular opinions
Accused of being procatholic
Clashed with Protestants
Raised taxes to go to foreign war
151
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Charles I

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Accepted petition of rights in 1628
No parliament from 1629-1640
Tried to force Anglican prayer books into Scottish church 
Parliament forced itself on him in 1642
Beheaded by his people
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Oliver Cromwell

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"lord Protector"
Supported demands for back pay
Abolished House of Lords
"Rump parliament"
Thinly veiled dictatorship
Increased trade
153
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Roundheads

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Parliaments army

154
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Cavileers

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Charles’s army

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Charles II

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Doesn't push religion on England
Ruled along with parliament
Manipulated political system
Accepted petition of rights
Forced ministers to resign
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James II

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Determined to be absolute
Openly catholic
Forced into exile
Bill of righs

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Free Market

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An economic system in which prices are determined by unrestricted competition between privately owned businesses

158
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Philosophes

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French intellectuals

159
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Physiocrat

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18th century French economists

160
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Social contract

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Hobbes Locke and Rousseau wrote some

Said you should sacrifice some indivisible freedom for state protection

161
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Brahe

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Danish astronomer

Designed instruments to plot accurately positions of planets, sun, moon, and stars

162
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John Calvin

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French theologian and reformer. Leader of Protestant reformation

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John Knox

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Scottish theologian who wrote a history of the reformation in Scotland

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Pope Paul III

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Italian pope who excommunicated Henry VIII

Initiated council of Trent

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Pope Paul IV

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Set up Roman Inquisitiom

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