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Unit 1: Renaissance and Exploration Flashcards

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Italian poet and humanist scholar, discovered work by Cicero

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Petrarch

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Italian humanist and philologist proved Donation of Constantine was a fake

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Lorenzo Valla

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Italian humanist, historian and leader of Florence. Prompted civic humanism.

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Leonardo Bruni

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Italian humanist, historian and secular political theorist (The Prince)

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Niccolò Machiavelli

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Italian humanist whose work outlined the ideal Renaissance courtier (Book of the Courtier)

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Baldassare Castiglione

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Italian humanist who promoted individualism (Oration on Dignity of Man)

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Pico della Mirandola

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Dutch Chrisitan humanist who criticised corruption in Church and State with Adages and challenged Church authority
with new latin bible translation.

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Erasmus

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English Christian humanist who corresponded with Erasmus, wrote Utopia and opposed the Reformation in England

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Thomas Moore

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German craftsman who developed a process of making movable type and the printing press

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Guthenberg

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Known as the ‘Warrior Pope’, he enlarged the Vatican states and was a patron to Michelangelo

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Pope Julius II

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New monarch who defeated most powerful and independent of French nobles Charles the Bold of Burgundy

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Louis XI of France

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New monarch who continued the sale of office to raise revenue, increased state bureaucracy and made
Concordat of Bologna with pope.

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Francis I

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New monarch victor in War of the Roses and first Tudor monarch. Increased the power of the English
monarchy by outlawing private armies and careful use of government finance.

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Henry VII of England

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New monarch, broke with the authority of the pope to empower himself to become head of Church in
England. Closed monasteries of England.

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Henry VIII of England

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New monarchs in Spain. Supported by the powerful Hermandad of cities and towns.
Ended religious toleration, expelled Jews and Muslims, established Spanish Inquisition.

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Isabella of Castile+Ferdinand of Aragon

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Portuguese leader who promoted use of caravel ships, exploration of Western Africa and the islands of the
Atlantic Ocean.

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Henry the Navigator

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Italian born explorer, funded by Ferdinand and Isabella, landed on the island of Hispaniola while
attempting to find a route to India.

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Christopher Columbus

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Portuguese sailor and first European to round the southern tip of Africa

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Bartolomeu Dias

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Portuguese sailor and the first European to reach India by sea

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Vasco da Gama

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Portuguese explorer who planned and led a Spanish funded expedition to circumnavigate the world

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Ferdinand Magellan

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1455

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Gutenberg bible printed

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1462

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Platonic Academy formed in Florence

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1494

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Spain and Portugal agreed to the Treaty of Tordesillas

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1522

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Spanish circumnavigation of the world

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1527

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Sack of Rome by Charles V

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Civic humanism

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Using ideas from ancient greece and rome

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Christian humanism

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self-fulfillment of humanity within the frameworkof christian principles

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Philology

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The study of language and literature from written documents

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Naturalism

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Renaissance art movement depicting nature and humans realistically

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Vernacular

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Common language spoken by the people, not latin

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New monarchy

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Powerful centralised monarchies that emerged during the Renaissance

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Mercantilism

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Economic belief the wealth of countries is linked to the accumulation of gold and silver reserves

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Columbian exchange

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The exchange of diseases, ideas, food. crops, and populations between the New World and the Old World following the voyage to the Americas by Christo pher Columbus in 1492

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Commercial revolution

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Growth of urban centers and money based economy from 1450-1650

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Subsistance agriculture

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peasants producing just enough food to feed themselves and their family (no surplus to sell)

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