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Renaissance

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Florentine possess ...   position of tax collectors for papacy  
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Popolo   common people heavily taxed, BITTER, wanted equality, use violence  
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Condottieri   brought mercenaries to take control, lied about liability  
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signori   son inherits rule from father  
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Italian city-states either ruled by   signori or oligarchy  
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oglicharchs and signori turned homes to   courts  
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Lorenzo Valla   On The False Donation of Constantine- proves documents weakened foundation of papal claims  
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Giovanni Boccaccio   The Decameron- describes ambitious merchants, friars, and cuckhold husbands portray sensual and worldly society  
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Desiderius Erasmus   The Praise of Folly- satire of worldly wisdom and plea for simple and spontaneous Christian faith of children, critical edition of Greek New Testament  
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Themes in Desiderius Erasmus (2)   1. reform=improvement 2. Christianity=life  
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Machiavelli   The Prince  
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5 Powers of Italian peninsula   1. Venice 2. Milan 3. Papal States 4. Kingdom of Florence 5. Kingdom of Naples  
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Medici Family   wealthy bankers who have authority of Florence  
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Alberti   On The Family  
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Castiglione   The Courtier  
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Utopia   describes ideal socialistic community on island in New World  
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1st artistic + literary manifestations of Italian Renaissance appeared where?   Florence  
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Lorenzo The Magnificent   wealthy merchant  
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Sistine Chapel   depiction of Old Testament, god give life to Adam  
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Brunelleschi   Dome  
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Michelangelo's known works   Statue of David, St. Peter's dome  
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Conversos   Jews converted to Christianity/New Christians  
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Moriscos   Muslims converted to Christianity  
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Spanish Inquisition   expulsion of Jews  
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Reconquista   expulsion of Muslims  
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Concordot of Bologna   pope receives 1st year income, mutual satisfactory agreement in France  
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Pragmatic Sanction of Bourges   general council power over papacy  
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justices of peace   unpaid local officials who fixed wages and moral behavior  
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Gabelle   Salt tax  
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Taille   Land tax  
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Jan Van Eyck   Flemish painter of Northern Europe  
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Court of Star Chamber   tortured nobles to confess  
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Hermandades   groups in towns given authority to act as local police forces  
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Oligarchy   small group that ruled city  
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Only form of distinct hierarchy   Gender  
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Charles from France does this for the very first time   Creates a professional royal army  
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Petrarch   Father of Humanism  
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Byzantine Empire   preserves all history  
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Constantine   1st Roman emperor to convert to Christianity  
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Philology   study of root words  
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Mirandola   humanist uses logic and reason  
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Why Italy was unique in the Western World (3)   1. urban 2. separated by city, not united country 3. change was good to urban people  
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Italy has access to ...   Grecko-Roman Period  
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