Vocabulary 10-31-16 Flashcards

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Renaissance

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The humanistic revival of classical art, architecture, literature, and learning

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Milan

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A city in Italy

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Venice

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A seaport in NE Italy

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Florence

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A city in central Italy on the Arno River

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Rome

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Capital of Italy

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Medici Family

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Italian noble family

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Humanism

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An outlook of thought attaching prime importance

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Machiavelli

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Being with the principles of the government

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Perspective

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The art of drawing solid objects on a two-dimensional surfaces

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Gutenberg

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First in Europe to print using moveable type and first to use a press

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Erasmus

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European Union student exchange programme established in 1987

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William Shakespeare

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An english playwright and poet

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Sir Thomas More

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An english lawyer, social philosopher, author, statesman, and noted Renaissance humanist

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Flemish

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The people of Flanders

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Michelangelo

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Italian sculptor, painter, architect, and poet

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John Van Eych

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Founder of a Flemish school

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Albert Durer

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Painter, printmaker, and theorist of the German Renaissance

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Fresco

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Paint in Fresco

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Indulgences

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Action of induging

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Predestination

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Divine foreordaining of all that will happen

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Reformation

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Action of reforming an institution

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Martin Luther

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Priest of the Roman Catholic Church

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Henry VIII

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King of England in the early sixteen century

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John Calvin

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French theologian and reformer in Switzerland

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Huguenots

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French Protestant of the 16th-17th centuries