Key People Flashcards
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Francesco Petrarch
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- Francisco was a Italian man
- He was a poet and a scholar
- best known for lyric poetry
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Erasmus
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- Erasmus was a Dutch, which means that he is from the Netherlands.
- He was a Dutch philosopher
- He was famous for being Europe’s famous and being Europe’s influential philosopher. He became one of Europe’s great thinkers.
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Michel de Montaigne
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- he is from France
- he is a philosopher
- best known for skepticism, which influenced philosophers like Descartes and Pascal.
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Leonardo de Vinci
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- He is a Italian
- He was a Artist, a sculptor, military engineer and inventor and draftsman
- remains best known for his art, including two paintings that remain among the world’s most famous and inspirational , Mona Lisa and The Last Supper.
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Donatello
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- He is a Italian
- He was a Sculptures
- He was famous for his sculptors that still remain today and it is called the Statue of David, St. Mark and St. George and Gattemelata.
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Nicolaus Copernicus
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- He was born in Poland
- He was a polymath and a astronomer
- He proposed a heliocentric system, that the planets orbit around the Sun and it will circle around the sun.
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Geoffery Chaucer
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- He was British
- He was a poet, astronomer and philosopher
- First writer buried in Poets and he also gained popularity as astronomer and philosopher
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Sir Tomas More
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- He was British
- He was a Lawyer, Philosopher, Politician, novelist and legal profession
- He spread Christian humanism across Europe and he was famous for his book, youtopia.
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Martin Luther
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- He was German
- He was a professor, priest and author.
- He was one of the most significant figure in Christian history. Her was known for his writing pieces.
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Lorenzo de Medici
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- He was Italian
- He is a banker
- He is famous for being the ruler of florence and at that the holder of medici world.
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Sir Francis Bacon
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- He was British
- Philosopher, scientist, politician , states men.
- Famous for establishing colonies in North America.
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Henry The Navigator
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- He was Portuguese
- He was a explorer
- He is most famous for the voyages of discovery that he organised and financed
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Christopher Columbus
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- He was a Italian
- He was a explorer
- Discovered the Spanish flag and he voyaged Atlantic paved the way for European colonization and exploitation of the Americas.
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Ferdinand Magellan
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- Was Portuguese
- Was a explorer
- best known for being the leader of a first successful mission to circumvent the Earth.
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Francis Drake
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- He was English
- He was a explorer or pirate
- best known for circumnavigating the earth. Later he was credited for his defense of England by raiding Spain’s harbour at Cádiz in 1587
