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World History test14
chapter 14
Question | Answer |
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Renaissance | rebirth |
Urban society | powerful city states |
secular | worldly |
condottiere | the leader of a band of mercenaries |
humanism | an intellectual movement based on the study of classics or the literary works of ancient greece and rome |
frescoes | a painting done on fresh wet plaster with water based paints |
pluralism | the holdingof many church offices |
absenteeism | when church officeholders ignored their duties and paid subordinates to run their offices |
predestination | the "eternal decree" god had predestined some people to either be saved or to be damned |
edict of worms | martin luther was outlawed by the holy roman empire |
charles V | outraged at martin luther, declared the edict of worms |
the peace of augsburg | 1555 no more warfare, lutherans & catholic split |
petrarch | the father of italian renaissance humanism. looked for the forgotten latin manuscripts. he wanted humanists to use latin |
Dante | made an italian vernacular masterpeice "divine comedy" a story of a souls journey to salvation |
Chaucer | made the canterbury tales, a story of 29 pilgrims journying to the tomb of saint thomas a becket at canterbury, england |
Francois Rabelais | pantagruel and gargantua. 16th century a story of a giant & hisfather |
Masaccio | 15th century artist made frescoes his paintings of people were 3d & life like |
Donatello | made sculptures & statues |
Filippo Brunellischi | a friend of donatellos. went with to rome architect made a church interior |
Jan Van Eyck | the first to use oil paint, didnt understand perspective |
Albrecht Durer | two trips to italy, to absorb theories of proportion |
Venice | trade empire |
Charles VIII | french, occupied Naples in 1494 |
CharlesI | of spain, sacked Rome in 1527 |
Machiavelli | wrote the prince-how to aquire and keep political power, wrote harshly about the human & got exiled |
Castiglione | the Book of Courtier- eplained a perfect noble 3 characteristics of a noble. was italian |
Petty Burghers | shop keeper, artisan,guild |
Michelangelo | a great artist, painted a ceiling for pope julius |
dowry | a sum of money given by the wives family to the husband upon marriage |
francesco sforza | a condottiere, conquered milan & became duke |
cosimo de medici | 1434 took over florence kept the republican form of govn't but ran it from behind the scenes |
milan | richest city, visconti family |
florence | republic_ major city state run by a small walthy group of merchants who lead successful wars |
venice | A major republic, wealthy merchant- aristocrats ran the govn't |