Final Flashcards
Machivelli
Wrote The Prince, taught princes in Italy how to use and maintain power
Dante
Wrote the divine comedy
Michaelangelo
Paints frescos (Sistine chapel) sculptor (David) architect (designed some for st peters)
Leonardo decaprio
Painted Mona Lisa and last supper
Medici family
Very rich popular family, own wool industry, sponsored Renaissance people
Condottiere
Mercenary leaders
Thomas More
Writes utopia (book about how humans can create paradise but really can’t)
Erasmus
Stays with the church because he believes God will help reform the church
Cervantes
Writes Don Quixote (makes fun of earlier periods while Renaissance is mature period)
Copernicus
Says the sun is the center of the universe “heliocentric universe”
Gutenberg
Creates the first practical printing press
Charles 5th
Calls diet of worms to tell off Luther, then releases edict of worms
St. Joan of Ark
Girls who led army at battle of Orleans because she got visions from saints
Battle of Agian Court
Battle between England and France where king Henry the 5th determined who gets the throne with treaty of Troyes
Battle of Bosworth Field
Between Yorks and Lancasters for English throne. Henry Tudor vs Richard. Henry Tudor wins.