Renaissance Era

Question 1

Mercenaries

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A professional soldier hired to serve in a foreign army.

Question 2

Republic

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A state in which supreme power is held by the people and their elected representatives, and which has an elected or nominated president rather than a monarch.

Question 3

Doge

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The chief magistrate of Venice of Genoa.

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Cosimo de’ Medici

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Known for being the founder of one of the main lines of the Medici family that ruled Florence.

Question 5

Lorenzo de’ Medici

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Lorenzo the Great the Florentine’s statesman and arts patron and is considered the most brilliant of the Medici. He ruled Florence for 20 years. Brought stability to the region.

Question 6

Girolamo Savonarola

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Doctor and mathematician who is famed for his workers Magna which was the first Latin treatise solely to algebra. He gave methods of solution of the cubic and quartic equation.

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Niccolo Machiavelli

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Known primarily for his political ideas his two most famous philosophical books, the prince and the Discourses on Livy were published after his death.

Question 8

The Book of the Courtier

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The lengthy philosophical dialogue after his on the topical what continues an ideal courtier court lady, worthy to befriend and advise a prince or political leader.

Question 9

Patrician

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An aristocrat or nobleman.

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Burgher

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A rank or title of a privileged citizen of medieval towns in modern early Europe.

Question 11

Dowry

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Property or money brought by a bride to her husband on their marriage.

Question 12

Humanism

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A cultural and intellectual movement of the Renaissance that emphasized human potential to attain excellence and promoted direct study of the literature, art, and civilization.

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Francesco Petrarch

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Italian scholar, poet, and humanist whose poems addressed to Laura, an idealized, beloved, contributed to the Renaissance of poetry.

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Civic

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A citizen of Ancient Rome.

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Vernacular

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A language that has not developed a standard variety, under everyone codification, or established a literary tradition.

Question 16

Divine Comedy

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A poem written by Dante in the early fourteenth century, describing the author’s journey through the afterlife.

Question 17

The Book of the City of Ladies

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In which the lady is defined as a woman of noble spirit, instead of noble birth. The book and therefore the city contains Women’s of past eras ranging from pagans to ancient Jews to medieval christian saints.

Question 18

Johannes Gutenberg

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A political exile from Mainz he was experimenting with printing he returned to Mainz several years later by 1450 had a printing machine perfected.

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Secular

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Principle of the separation of gov. institutions and persons mandated to represent the state from religious institutions and religious dignitaries.

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Fresco

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A technique of a mural painting executed upon freshly laid “wet” lime plaster.

Question 21

Perspective

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Understanding the social, cultural, intellectual, and emotional setting as that shaped peoples lives and actions in the past.