(Mooresville) Renaissance People
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| Renaissance means _____________ | rebirth
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| City that was the birthplace of the Renaissance | Florence
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| Ancient civilizations that served as inspiration for the Renaissance | Greek and Roman
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| Movement that gave rise to the Renaissance; it focused on human ability and beauty | Humanism
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| Word that means "worldly"...separated from religion | Secular
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| Family that ruled Florence, used their money to support the arts | Medici
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| Wrote a book for the etiquette of a perfect "Renaissance" person...says you have to be good at everything | Castiglione
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| Believed that the sun, not the earth was the center of the universe, published it in a book, but said it was just a theory | Copernicus
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| Wrote a political guide book on how to get and keep power; ignored morality and focused on reality | Machiavelli
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| Book written by Machiavelli | The Prince
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| Invention that helped spread the ideas of the Renaissance and Reformation | Printing press
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| Person who invented the printing press | Gutenberg
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| After perfecting the telescope, he discovered things about the universe that led to him being put on trial for proclaiming a sun-centered universe. | Galileo
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| Playwright who analyzed mankind by using universal themes; excellent use of the English language | Shakespeare
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| Wrote Hamlet, Othello, Much Ado About Nothing, Midsummer Night's Dream, and Romeo and Juliet | Shakespeare
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| Formulated the first Germ theory of the Modern Age | Fracastoro
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| Disproved medieval medical theories by dissecting human corpses. | Vesalius
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| Playwright who analyzed mankind by using universal themes; excellent use of the English language | Shakespeare
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| Wrote Hamlet, Othello, Much Ado About Nothing, Midsummer Night's Dream, and Romeo and Juliet | Geocentric
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| Language that is native to a particular to an area or region | Vernacular
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| Word that means "sun-centered' | Heliocentric
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