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the renaissance Flashcards

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Allegiance

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wearing your loyalty to a superior power to an individual or a group of people

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Anatomy

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the study of the structures of a human body, an animals body and all living organisms

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Aqueducts

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water pathways that transport water

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Astronomy

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the study of stars

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Beliefs

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a statement that people value

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Bills of Exchange

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a person who sends an order for another to pay a demanded price

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Black Death

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a virus or infection that spread around Europe

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Christianity

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a religion that Christians follow

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City-state

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a city with its surrounding territory that makes up a state and independent country

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Civic Humanism

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the modern term for the moral, social and political philosophy that in the course of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries

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Classic civilizations

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is the study of the history and culture of the ancient Greeks and Romans

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Crusades

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an expedition by Europeans to recover from the Holy Land from the Muslims.

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Cultural Contact

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when two people of different cutlers make contact

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Democracy

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when you don’t treat anyone differently because of what the wear, look like, or their race.

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Excommunication

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when you ban a Christian from entering your Church

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Exploration

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when you explore beyond your territories

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Feudalism

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when people are ranked from top to bottom based on how much money they have

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Heresy

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belief or opinion contrary to orthodox religious doctrine.. mostly Christians.

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Hierarchy

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when people are ranked from top to bottom according to your status

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Hinterland

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a place that exists beyond discovery

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Holy Land

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the crusades believe Jesus walked on

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Humanism

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values on human beings

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Indulgences

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a way to reduce the amount of punishment one has to undergo for sins according to Christianity

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Islam

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a religion people followed

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Isolation
to be ignored or isolated out
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Judaism
a religion Jewish people follow
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Manor/Fiefdoms
a land or a small castle
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Middle Ages
Time of more or less peace
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Monarchies
a form of government in which the throne is in power until they die of give the throne up
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Nobles
a person of noble rank or birth
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Oligarchy
a small group of people having control of a country, organization, or institution.
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Patrons
a person who gives financial or other support to a person, organization, cause, or activity.
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Peasants
workers or slaves for the king
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Perspective
looking at something at a different point of view
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Philosophers
someone who questions everything
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Pilgrim
a person who journeys to a sacred place for religious reasons.
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Renaissance
the revival of art and literature under the influence of classical models in the 14th–16th centuries.
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Rural
characteristic of the countryside rather than the town
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Scientific Method
was discovered during the Renascence
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Silk Road
a network of trading routes
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Sovereignty
someone that has supreme power or authority
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Trade
a way to gain more things and make money
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Urbanization
the process of making an area more urban.
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Usury
they act of making unethical loans enrich a leader.
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Values
something you believe in
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Vernacular
the language or dialect spoken by the ordinary people in a particular country or region.
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Worldview
the way you look at the world
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Tithe
a tax you give to the Church
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Francesco Petrarch
poet Scholar mountaineer, the Iyric poetry of his Canzoniere and is considered one of the greatest love poets of world literature. A scholar of classical antiquity, he was the founder of humanism
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Erasmus
Scholar, he had fame for his scholar
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Michel de Montaigne
philosopher and writers, famous for writers
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Leonardo de Vinci
painter, famous for his paintings
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Donatello
sculpture, for famous sculptures
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Nicolas Copernicus
astronomer, mathematician, translator, artist, and physicist, he is famous for first astronomer to posit the idea of a heliocentric solar system
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Geoffery Chaucer
poet,diplomat,author and more London, United Kingdom hes famous for ¨The Canterbury Tales'
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Sir Tomas More
Catholic Church as Saint Thomas More, was an English lawyer, social philosopher, author, statesman, and noted Renaissance humanist he was famous for 1516 book Utopia he was born in Milk Street, London
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Martin Luther
German professor of theology, composer, priest, monk, and a seminal figure in the Protestant Reformation. fictionalizing the Catholic Church and sparking the Protestant Reformation he was born in Germany
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Lorenzo de Medici
Italian statesman, de facto ruler of the Florentine Republic and the most powerful and enthusiastic patron of Renaissance culture in Italy. Florence, Italy. sponsorship of artists such as Botticelli and Michelangelo.
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Sir Francis Bacon
he was born in York House. he was famous for English Renaissance statesman and philosopher, best known for his promotion of the scientific method.
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Henry The Navigator
patronage. early development of Portuguese exploration and maritime trade with other continents through the systematic exploration of Western Africa, the islands of the Atlantic Ocean, and the search for new routes. Portugal
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Christopher Columbus
Genoa, Italy Explorer and Sailor Italian explorer and colonizer who completed four voyages across the Atlantic Ocean
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Ferdinand Magellan
Portuguese explorer who organised the Spanish expedition to the East Indies. Explorer and a Sailor Portugal
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Francis Drake
Tavistock, United Kingdom. circumnavigating Earth. English sea captain, privateer, slave trader, pirate, naval officer and explorer of the Elizabethan era.
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Queen Elizabeth I
Pollination. moral support to the British people during WWII and her longevity. England
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Vasco da Gama’s
explorer. Portugal. first European to reach India by sea
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When did the Middle Ages begin and with what event?
it started at the fall of New Roman and merged into the Renaissance and the Age of Discovery
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Why did Europe become such a violent place during the Early Middle Ages?
there was way to much war going on because of the fall of New Roman so it caused everyone to be violent and save themselves

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