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Renaissance
Italy has influenced a series of acts that changes the world
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Renaissance | the crossing over from the middle ages to modern history. time of scientific discovery and artistic achievement |
| secular | worldly, non-religious |
| 1300 | around when the Renaissance began |
| Francesco Petrarch | a scholar, humanist ,and poet |
| why did the renaissance begin in Italy? | Italy was the birthplace of the Renaissance because of its city-states and wealth |
| Leonardo daVinci | a famous artist during the Renaissance. he painted the Mona Lisa and the Last Supper. |
| Fresco | a painting into wet plaster |
| Michelangelo | a famous artist during the Renaissance who painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. the ceiling took him four years to paint. he also carved the Pieta, Moses, and David |
| Raphael | famous painter of the Renaissance. he painted then School of Athens. |
| Johannes Gutenberg | creator of the printing press. the first book to be printed was the bible. |
| Nicholas Copernicus | proposed that the solar system was sun centered. he died around 1543. he directly contradicted the Roman Catholic Church |
| Galileo Galilei | proved the theory of Copernicus with his invention of the telescope. around 1633 he was called on trial in front of the church. |
| Andreas Vesalius | was the first modern doctor. he studied the human anatomy. |
| William Harvey | studied how the heart functions |
| Lorenzo de Medici | died in 1492. was the first renaissance supporters. |
| what were the two civilizations that were models of the Renaissance? | Rome and Greece |
| Ferdinand Magellan's voyage | his crew was the first to sail around the world |
| Nicholas Machiavelli | author of The Prince |
| Florence | the city-state ruled by the de Medici family |
| vernacular | a place's native language |
| the country to defeat the Spanish Armada in 1588? | England |
| the pope who hired Michelangelo to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel? | Pope Julius 2nd |
| 1492 | the year Columbus discovered America |
| the explorer who claimed North American for England? | John Cabot |
| claimed North America for France? | Jacques Cartier |
| Joseph Stalin | once ruled Russia |
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