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What does Renaissance mean?

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Rebirth

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During renaissance there was explosion of creativity in what 3 areas

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art. writing, thought

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Where did Renaissance start

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Italy

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What are the 3 advantages for Italy that encouraged start of renaissance?

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City States
Merchants and Medici
Looking to Greece and Rome

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Who are merchants?

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Wealthy middle class

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What is Humanism?

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Intellectual movement focuses on human potential and achievement

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Humanism moved Medieval Christian teachings to what

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Greek and roman views and humanties

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Humanities is the study of

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History, Literature, Philosophy

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What is secular

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not belonging to religious doctrine (beliefs) or lifestyle

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Examples of secular lifestyle

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material luxuries, fine foods, music, art

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What a patron

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financial supporter of artists

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Example of a patron

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Church leaders paid artists to beautify cities

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Characteristics of a Renaissance Man

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excels in arts, politics, combat, charming, witty

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Characteristics of a Renaissance Woman

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upper class, educated in classics, charming, inspire art

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Handbook for how to be a universal man

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The Courtier

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Gained power as a patron and with political skill

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Isabella d’Este

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17
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How did Renaissance change Art?

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realistic styles
portray religious subjects
natural sculptures
perspective

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what is perspective?

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way to show 3d

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Examples of Renaissance Artists

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Sofonisba Anguiddola (female)
Leonardo Davinci (painter/sculptor)
Raphael (painter, showcased as philosopher)
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What is vernacular?

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writer’s way of speaking native language. language spoken by ordinary people

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How did Renaissance change Literature?

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writing focused on self-expression, inviduality

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Who wrote The Prince

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Machiavelli - explains how rulers gain and keep power

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Who wrote The Decameron

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Boccaccio - humanist poet

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Who was Petrarch

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Humanist author

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25
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Italian Renaissance ideas spread where

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Northern Europe

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German Painters

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Albercht Durer and Hans Holbein

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Where are Flemish from

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Flanders, Belgium (capital of Northern Europe)

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Flemish Painters

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Jan van eyck, Pieter Bruegel

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Similarities in Art between Italian and Northern Renaissance

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religious themes, oil paintings

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Differences in Art between Italian and Northern Renaissance

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Italian - Idealized beauty, Simplified forms, heroic male nudes, mythological scenes, formal and reserved

Northern - intense realism, lifelike features, prosperous people and peasants, reveal individual personality

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Northern Humanists started

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Christian Humanism - criticized catholic church

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What did Northern Humanists want to reform/change?

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society, promote education particularly for woman

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Examples of Christian Humanist

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Desiderius Erasmus - wrote The Praise of Folly which makes fun of merchants and priests
Thomas More - model society in Utopia

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What is Utopia

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means no place. ideal place where greed war and corruption don’t exist (Thomas More’s book)

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Who is Christine Pizan

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promotes education and equal treatment for boys and girls

36
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who was ruler during Elizabethean Age?

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Queen Elizabeth 1

37
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Who was the greatest playwright

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William Shakespeare

38
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Who developed the printing press

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Johann Gutenberg

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Examples of changes in Art from Renaissance

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realistic portrayals
art is both secular and religious
writers use vernacular
art praises individual achievement

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Examples of changes in Society from Renaissance

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printing makes info available
people that cant read have books read to them
published maps and charts
published legal documents
political structures and religious are questioned

41
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3 examples of the reformation

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Church Authority Challenged, Criticisms of the Catholic Church, and Early Calls for reform

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Who challenged the church authority

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Individualism of Renaissance and Ruler’s

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Who were criticisms of the catholic church

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Corrupt leaders and poorly educated priests

44
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What has authority over the clergy’s authority

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the bible

45
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Who sold indulgences

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Friar Johann Tetzel

46
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Luther’s theses circulated throughout what country

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Germany

47
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The reformation rejects who’s authority

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Pope

48
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What is indulgence

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$$$ to get into heaven/a pardon releasing a person for penalty for sin

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What is Reformation also known as

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Protestant Reformation

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3 things about Luther’s teachings

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people can win salvation with faith alone, Christian teachings must be based on the bible, and All people with faith are equal

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Who were Lutherans

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People who followed Martin Luther

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2 responses to Luther

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The Peasants’ Revolt and Germany at war

53
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Why did King Henry want to get a divorce with Catherine

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She only gave him daughters instead of sons

54
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How many wives did King Henry have

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6

55
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Queen Elizabeth started honoring whose traditions

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Anglican

56
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Swiss priest who called for church reforms

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Zwingli

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Zwingli got killed in a war between who

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Catholics and Protestants

58
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who wrote institutes of the Christian religion

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John Calvin

59
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What is Calvinism

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followers of John Calvin

60
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what is predestination

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When God has already chosen who is saved

61
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What is theocracy

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Calvin’s ideal government

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Who were Presbyterians

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followers of John Knox

63
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Who believed in the separation of the church and states

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Anabaptists

64
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What is the counter reformation

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a reformation which seeks to reform Catholic Church from within

65
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Who is Ignatius of Loyola

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a leading catholic reformer and Saint

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Who were Jesuits

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followers of Ignatius

67
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What did the council of Trent reform

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Church’s interpretation of bible is final and Bible and Church traditions equally

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Religious effect of the reformation

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Catholic Church is unified

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Social effect of the reformation

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Catholics created schools

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2 political effects of the reformation

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Catholic Church’s power lessens and Reformation’s question beliefs

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