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ap euro ch. 10 vocab
Renaissance and Americas
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| "the garden" | The garden is the beauty of the manor of fief, it provides life around the town. |
| artemseia Gentileschi | Renaissance painter that painted paintings about women. |
| Boccaccio Decameron | a collection of a hundred tales by Boccaccio about the plague. |
| Castiglinone Book of the courtier | it is a book about how to go do well at court |
| Botticelli | a famous writer in the renaissance period |
| Borgia Pope | a spanish papal family that produced 3 popes |
| Burgundian Empire | an empire in western europe ruled by an duchy. |
| Charles V | The holy Roman Emperor from 1500-1558 |
| Chiaroscuro | Renaissance painter that painted with great light and dark contrast |
| Civic Humanism | Humanism indicating patriotic citizenship and educational ideal |
| Christine de Pisan | a French Poet, the first feminist |
| Manuel Chrysoloras | Greek teacher and writer teaching in Florence and other Italian cities. |
| gabeille | |
| Dante Alighieri | The author of Dante's inferno |
| desiderius Erasmus | Renaissance humanist, catholic priest, and theologian |
| Despotism | government where the despot rules with absolute power sometimes called an oligarchy |
| donatello | eary renaissance artiest and sculptor from Florence |
| Ferdinand and isabella | they were the rulers that ordered the expulsion of the Moors from Spain. |
| Florentine Academy | an academy of rine arts in Florence Italy |
| francesco petrarch | Italian scholar, poet and humanist |
| Francois Rabelais | major Renaissance writer, doctor and renaissance humanist |
| girolamo Savonarola | an Italian scholar, friar, and contributor to the politics of Florence |
| Guelf | factions that supported the pope |
| ghibelline | another faction the supported the pope |
| golden bull | ornament representing a seal |
| henry VII | holy roman emperor fro 1312 to 1313 |
| Humanism | a system of thought of action which a human's interests, values and dignity predominate. |
| in praise of Folly | written by Faustino perisauli |
| index of forbidden books | a list of books that were prohibited by the catholic church |
| italian city state | cites that gained independence from the Holy Roman Empire |
| Italian civilization of the Renaissance in italy | a book written by Jacob Burckhardt |
| Jan van Eyck | Flemish painter during the Renaissance |
| Johann Guttenberg | the inventor of the printing press |
| Leonardo De Vinci | renaissance painter and sculptor |
| Lorenzo de Medici | Italian statesman |
| Louis XI | King of france from 1461 to 1483 |
| mannerism | a perid of european art that appeared after the Renaissance around 1520 |
| Michel de Montaigne | a very influential writer of the renaissance |
| michelangelo | artist and sculptor from the renaissance that painted the Sistine Chapel |
| Niccolo Machiavelli the prince | a book written by Niccolo Machiacelli about how to rule and how to keep power over your followers. |
| patron | In the words of Samuel Johnson "one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling of life in the water, and , when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help |
| pico della Mirandola | renaissance philosopher |
| pieter brueghel | renaissance painter |
| platonism | the study of the works of Plato |
| patron | In the words of Samuel Johnson "one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling of life in the water, and , when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help |
| pico della Mirandola | renaissance philosopher |
| pieter brueghel | renaissance painter |
| platonism | the study of the works of Plato |
| Pope Julius II | pope from 1503 to 1513 |
| condotieri | mercenary soldier leaders |
| printing press | new technology that helped the production of books and led the the spread of universities |
| Raphael | a renaissance painter and architect |
| sovereign rulers | the line of prestigious rulers in the renaissance |
| reichstag | legislative body in the empire |
| signoria | means government or government authority |
| sovereign rulers | the line of prestigious rulers in the renaissance |
| tomas de torquemada | 15th century friar |
| studia humanitas | what cicero described as an educated person that possessed a collection of virtues |
| william shakespeare | renaissance playwriter |
| thomas more Utopia | a book on how the world should be run |
| Treaty of Lodi | peace agreement between Milan, Naples, and Florence |
| War of the Roses | wars for the seat of power in england |
| prince Henry the navigator | a renaissance navigator that navigaed the world |
| antwerp | a city in Belgium |
| Bartholomew Dias | a Portuguese exploror that rounded the tip of Africa |
| Malabar Coast | a long and narrow shore line in India |
| Christopher Columbus | he was an explorer that wanted to go to India but accidentally hit the Americas |
| Amerigo Vespucci | Italian explorer and navigator |
| Ferdinand Magellan | Magellan was a map maker, he sailed from the Atlantic oceans to the pacific |
| far east | China, India, The Indies |
| aztecs | tribe found in Mexio |
| incas | tribe found on the Yucatan peninsula |
| harnan cortes | spanish conquistador that led an expedition that caused the fall of the Aztecs |
| francisco pizarro | Spanish conquistador that conquered the Incas |
| smallpox | disease that gives humans alot of small bumps all over the body |
| conquistadors | a spanish conqueror |
| peninsulares | colonial cast system |
| encomienda system | system that colonized the Americas |
| creoles | various distinct ethnic groups |
| fuggers | family that was historically prominent |
| bullion | a metal is precious if it is rare, the more precious it is, the more expensive |