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1
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What is the significance of 1517?

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Martin Luther’s 95 Thesis

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Who is the founder of the Anglican Church?

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Henry VIII (part of the Todor dynasty)

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Who is the author of “The Praise of Folly”?

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Erasmus

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Who is the author of “The Histories of Gargantua and Pantagruel”?

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Rabelais

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Who is the author of “Essays”?

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Montaigne

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Who is the author of “Utopia”?

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More

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Name 3 Late Manneriest Painters (2 Spanish, 1 Italian)

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El Greco, Anguissola, Tintoretto

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Name 3 Northern European Painters

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Durer, Grunewald, Bosch

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Who is the author of the Spanish text that cuts off the romantic idea?

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Cervantes (Don Quixote)

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10
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Name 2 Dynasties ruling during the Baroque period

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Bourbon, Stuart

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11
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Name of the last great religious war?

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Thirty Years War

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4 Major architects responsible for St Peters?

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Bramante, Michelangelo, Moderno, Bernini

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Architect responsible for St. Paul’s Cathedral?

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Christopher Wren

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14
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3 Florid style painters?

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Caravaggio, Gentileschi, Rubens, Velazquez

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15
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One classical Baroque style painter?

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Poussin

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3 restrain baroque painters?

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Van Dyck, Rembrandt, Vermeer, Leyster

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17
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The principle sculpture in the florid baroque?

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Bernini

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18
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2 classical baroque playwrights and the person that influenced them?

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Corneille, Racine—- Seneca

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19
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Who is the author of “Oroonoko”?

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Behn

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20
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What were the mistaken notions?

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The unities

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21
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What was the preferred rhyme and meter scheme used by Dryden?

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Baroque (heroic) couplet

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22
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Who is the classical philosopher?

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Aristotle

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23
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Who published “Revolutions of the Heavenly Bodies”? In 1543

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Copernicus

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Which Baroque age scientist was reviving Aristarchus heliocentric theory?

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Copernicus

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23
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He dedicated his book to the pope, Paul III?

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Copernicus

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23
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Heliocentrism was first broached by the Polish thinker?

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Copernicus

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23
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The great Danish astronomer ________ (1546-1601) adopted a modified Copernicanism, believing that other planets moved around the sun but the earth did not.

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Brahe

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23
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He contributed to the ultimate triumph of heliocentrism through his observations of planetary movement?

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Brahe

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Brahe’s assistant, mathematician who dedicated his life to clarifying the theory of heliocentrism?

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Kepler

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24
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In 1609 he published “On the motion of mars” ?

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Kepler

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25
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His most telling discovery was that the planet Jupiter had moons?

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Galileo

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26
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In 1609 he made his own telescope?

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Galileo

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27
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He was probably the first scientist to make a clock a basic means for measuring time in his experiments?

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Galileo

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28
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Threatened with torture he recanted his his views on science and was released?

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Galileo

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29
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English Mathematician (1642-1727) who finished the revolution in astronomy begun by Copernicus ?

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Newton

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30
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He wrote “Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy” known more familiarly as the “Principia”?

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Newton

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31
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A German thinker who invented the accepted language of calculus?

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Gottfried Wilhelm Von Leibniz

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32
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An English scientist who offered the correct view of the circulation of the blood?

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William Harvey

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33
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Italian scientist who identified capillaries?

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Marcello Malpighi

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34
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The English physicist _______ (1627-1691) established the ground work for modern chemistry.

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Robert Boyle

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35
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A German locksmith who invented the coil spring clock?

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Peter Henlein

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36
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A Dutch mathematician who developed the standing clock with a pendulum ?

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Christian Huygens

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37
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Three prominent contributors to the literature of the scientific revolution were, one English and two French?

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Francis Bacon (English), Rene Descartes (French), Blaise Pascal (French)

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38
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He wrote “PROS” about science and its methodology, which appealed to a curious and educated people?

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Bacon

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39
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He became the spokesmen for the “experimenters” those who believed that the future of science lay in discarding Aristotle

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Bacon

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40
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He said “Knowledge is power”

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Bacon

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41
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A critic of the experimental method, and urged a purely mathematical approach to science?

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Descartes

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42
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He wrote “Discourse on Method” in 1637?

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Descartes

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43
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His most influential contributions to western philosophy were skepticism and a dualistic theory of knowledge?

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Descartes

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44
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He established that he could not doubt the existence of his own doubting self?

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Descartes

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45
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He said “I think therefore I am”

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Descartes

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46
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He wrote “Pensees” or “Thoughts”?

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Pascal

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47
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His skepticism made him conclude that human beings can know neither the natural world or themselves?

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Pascal

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48
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The Two political thinkers of then scientific revolution?

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Grotius and Bossuet

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49
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He thought that natural law should govern the relationships between the states?

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Grotius

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50
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He defended the theory that kings rule by divine right?

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Bossuet

51
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He wrote “The Leviathan”?

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Hobbes

52
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He wrote “Two Treatises of Goverment”?

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Locke

53
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The political writer who stems the absolutist , authoritarian tradition?

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Hobbes

54
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The political writer who descends from the school of liberalism?

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Locke

55
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He wrote “An essay concerning human understanding”

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Locke

56
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He founded Pennsylvania in 1681

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William Penn

57
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He wrote “Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds”

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Bernard de Fontenelle

58
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Two Scientific society in England?

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Royal Society (Charles II)
Royal Academy of Science (Louis XIV)
59
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Scientific society in Germany

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Berlin Academy of Science

60
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Scientific society in France

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France’s Royal Academy of Science

61
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French publicist who wrote “Historical and Critical Dictionary”

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Bayle

62
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Who wrote”Paradise Lost”

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Milton

63
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The two men who are examples of the scientific revolution roles into political thought?

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Bossuet and Grotius

64
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These two men disagree on how the state should operate?

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Hobbes and Locke

65
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In order for republics to run they need checks and balances?

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Montesquie

66
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He understands Mackieavelli and writes “The Persians”

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Montesquie

67
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He embraces pure democracy and writes “The Confessions”

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Rousseau

68
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King or his court running economic system for the colonies, colonies are to be for the mother country

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Merchantilism

69
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Willing to look the other way because everyone is making money

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Salutary neglect

70
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He brings us the Encyclopedia which brings power to the middle class and he has an anti religious stance

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Diderot

71
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He wrote “History of the decline and fall of the Roman Empire” he blamed Christianity

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Gibbon

72
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French man wrote the novel “Emily” children need education through feelings

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Rousseau

73
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Two men who came out of the Scottish Enlightenment ?

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Hume, Smith

74
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The age of reason writer who wrote “ A Vindication of the rights of women” , used enlightenment ideas to urge the liberation of her own sex

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Mary Wollstonecraft

75
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2 key leaders in the first great awakening in the colonies

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Jonathan Edwards

George Whitfield

76
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Chambers “Cyclopedia” in England (1728) and Bayle’s “Dictionary” in France (1697) paved the way for this ?

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Encyclopedia

77
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Unlike most publications of this period this projected was funded by its readers and not by the crown or church?

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Encyclopedia

78
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The Scottish economist who wrote “An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations”

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Adam Smith

79
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Known as Fredrick the Great he turned Prussia into a leading European power

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Fredrick II

80
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By 1740 Prussia was ruled by which dynasty?

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Hohenzollern

81
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Name 3 Rococo Painters?

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Watteau, Boucher, Elizabeth-Louis Vigee-Lebrun

82
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Name the last great French rococo painter

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Fragonard

83
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France’s royal architect, helped establish rococo’s popularity with his” Salon de la Princesse in the Hotel de Soubise” in Paris

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Boffrand

84
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The Residenz, a German palace is an example of baroque architecture with rococo interiors designed by these two men

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Neumann

Tiepolo ( Italian born rococo master)

85
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The English response to rococo painting this painter emerged

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Hogarth

86
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Neoclassical writers who wrote “The Antiquities of Athens”

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Stuart and Revett

87
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Neoclassical German writer who wrote “History of Art”

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Winckelmann

88
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Name 2 neoclassical painters

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David, Vein

89
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Name 2 neoclassical architects

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Robert Adam, Jacques-Germain Soufflot

90
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Neoclassical architect who designed buildings based on roman temples, best example is “ The Pantheon” in Paris

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Jacques-Germain Soufflot

91
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Neoclassical philosopher who wrote “The Spirit of the Laws”

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Montesquieu

92
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Neoclassical philosopher who wrote “The Social Contract”

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Rousseau

93
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The enlightenments chief political theorist were?

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Montesquieu and Rousseau

94
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Leader of the Scottish enlightenment who wrote “History of England” and “A Treatise of Human Nature”

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Hume

95
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Name three great French writers in the neoclassical era ?

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Montesquieu, Rousseau, Voltaire

96
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Neoclassical writer who wrote “Essay on Customs” and the novel “Candid”. And said we must cultivate our garden

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Voltaire

97
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Two English writers of the neoclassical era?

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Pope, Gibbon

98
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Neoclassical english writer who Wrote “Essay on Man” composed in rhymed couplets

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Pope

99
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Neoclassical English writer who wrote “History of the decline and fall of the Roman Empire”?

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Gibbon

100
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Two neoclassical English writers who helped the rise of be novel?

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Richardson and Fielding

101
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Neoclassical English writer of novels wrote “Pamela, or virtue rewarded” and “Clarissa Harlowe”

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Richardson

102
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Neoclassical English novel writer who wrote “The history of Tom Jones, a Foundling”

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Fielding

103
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1309-1376

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Babylonian Captivity

104
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3 Significant Renaissance Popes

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Pious II
Nicholas IV
Alexander IV

105
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Translated famous work for Medici and who wrote it?

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Faccino- Plato

106
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Famous Architect in first test and what he did?

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Brunelleschi- dome on the florentine chapel

107
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What is Alberti famous for?

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Arch

108
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3 architects, 2 high renaissance and one Manneriest?

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Vermonte, Michelangelo, ???

109
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Who sculpted David?

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Donatello

110
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Two other sculptors who did David?

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Veroccio, Michelangelo

111
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Doors of paradise

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Ghiberti

112
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3 Florentine painters

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Botachellie, Francescia, da Vinci

113
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3 per mannerist venetian painters

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Titian, Bellini, Georgian

114
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2 painters in Rome

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Michelangelo, Da Vinci

115
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2 ruling dynasty’s in the first test

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Hapsburg,

116
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Who wrote “Cortier”

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Castiglione

117
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Who wrote “The Prince”

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Machiavelli

118
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Baroque Astronomy:

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Aristarchus
Copernicus
Brahe
Kepler
Galileo
Newton
119
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Baroque Medicine and chemistry

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William Harvey

Marcello Malpighi

120
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Baroque Chemistry

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Robert Boyle

121
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Baroque technology

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Peter Henlein

Christian Huygens

122
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Baroque science on philosophy

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Bacon
Descartes
Pascal

123
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Baroque natural law vs divine right

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Grotius

Bousset

124
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Baroque absolutism and liberalism

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Hobbes

Locke

125
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Neoclassical philosophes

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Mary Wollstonecraft

126
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Neoclassical religion

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Deism
Pietism
First great awakening

127
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Neoclassical religion: people

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John Wesley
Jonathan Edwards
George Whitfield

128
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Who wrote “Cyclopedia”

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Chambers

129
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Who wrote “Dictionary”

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Bayle

130
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Who wrote “Encyclopedia”?

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Diderot

131
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5 City states on first test

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Venice
Milan
Florence
Naples 
Papal states
132
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3 major poets in the 14th century

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Donte
Petrarch
Vassacio

133
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Medici family line

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Giovanni
Cosimo
Piero
Lorenzo

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