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The Italian

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The______________arose in Italy, in part because of its thriving cities, increased trade, and wealthy merchant class.   Renaissance  
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There subjects can be known as humanities, and the movement they inspired is known as _________.   humanism  
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Their focus was also ________;that is, they had a worldly rather than a spiritual focus.   secular  
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One of these humanists,the Italian diplomat ____________ ______________ wrote a book called The Courtiar.   baldassare castiglione  
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At about the same time that Castiglione was finishing The Courtier, a fellow Italian, __________ ______________ of Florence, was writing another influential book.   niccolo machiavelli  
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_________ __ _______, hisself a well-educated poet, supported some of the most talented artists of the day.   lorenzo de medici  
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The henius ___________ __ ______ was a highly talented painter.   leonardo da vinci  
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In Rome at the age of 24, __________________ _______________ won fame with his Pieta, a sculpture of Mary, the Mother of Jesus.   michelangelo buonarroti  
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Raffaello Sanzio, who became known as _________, was a renowned painter and an accomplished architect.   raphael  
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In the mid-1400s,the German _____________ ____________ cast the letters of the alphabet onto metal plates and locked those plates into a wooden press.   johnannes gutenberg  
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The leading Christian humanist was _____________ ________.   desiderius erasmus  
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During his stay, he become friends with an important fellow humanist and English statesman, __ ________ ____.   sir thomas more  
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In an age of great writers, many scholar believe the greatest was English playwright __________ ________________.   william shakespeare  
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Italian-born writer ____________ __ ______ wrote important works focusing on the role women played in society.   christine de pisan  
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German artist __________ _____ visited Italy in late 1400s.   albrecht durer  
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Known as the Flemish School, they used a technique of oil painting that had been perfected in the 1400s by the Flemish painter ___ ___ ____.   jan van eyck  
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By the early 1500s, the concerns crystallized into a reform movement that eventually came to be called the _________ ___________.   protestant reformation  
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To help raise money, he approved the sale of ______________.   indulgences  
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It was in this year that _______ _______ made public his complaints about the church.   Martin Luther  
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A ____________ is a goverment in which church and state are joined and in which officials are considered to be divinely inspired.   theocracy  
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Next to Luther, ____ _______ was the most important Protestant reformer.   John Calvin  
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Inspired by the ideas of Augustine, Calvin preached the doctrine of ______________.   predestination  
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_______ ____ became king of England in 1509 at the age of 17.   Henry V111  
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Henry's decided to have the marriage ___________, or declared invalid based on church laws, so that he could marry again.   annulled  
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____________ __ was a Protestant at Heart.   Elizabeth 1  
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Later, in response to the spread of protestantism,the church began a series of reforms known as the ____________________.   Counter-Reformation  
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The most influential of these groups was the Society of Jesus, or the Jesuits.   jesuits  
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The Jesuit order was founded in 1534 by _______ __ ________, a Basque nobleman and former soldier.   ignatius of loyola  
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Recognizing the need to redefine the doctrines of the Catholic faith, Pope Paul 111 convened the ________ __ _______ in 1545.   council of trent  
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________ _______________ was the archbishop of Milan from 1560 to 1584.   charles borromeo  
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In france, _______ __ ______ worked to regain the district of Savoy, which had largely turned to Calvinism.   francis of sales  
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Perhaps the most famous female spiritual leader was _______ __ _______.   teresa of avila  
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