Renaissance Europe
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| Niccolo Machiavelli | show 🗑
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| Byzantine Empire | show 🗑
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| Visconti | show 🗑
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| Treaty of Lodi | show 🗑
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| show | The king and queen of Spain who gave Columbus the funds that he needed to find a route to Asia.
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| show | Jewish converts to Christianity in Spain
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| show | a public confession which was one of the punishments if found guilty of practicing one’s old religion and not Christianity, other punishments were anything from monetary fines to burning at the stake
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| show | 1438, Charles Charles V of Austria's written document that allowed his daughter, Maria Theresa, to rule Austria and keep her land after her father dies.
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| show | Lead by Sultan Mehmed II, a serious threat to Christian Europe, declared a holy war and laid siege to Constantinople and won, earning Mehmed II the name of the “Conqueror”
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| show | A former principality in west-central Russia. Centered on Moscow, it was founded c. 1280 and existed as a separate entity until the 16th century, when it was united with another principality to form the nucleus of the early Russian empire.
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| show | A Venetian merchant and traveler. His accounts of his travels to China offered Europeans a firsthand view of Asian lands and stimulated interest in Asian trade.
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| show | Portuguese explorer, the first European to reach India by sea sailing around the tip of Africa.
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| show | Portuguese-born navigator. Hired by Spain to sail to the Indies in 1519. He was killed in the Philippines (1521). One of his ships returned to Spain (1522), thereby completing the first circumnavigation of the globe.
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| show | Portuguese explorer who reached and claimed Brazil accidentally in 1500 on a voyage to India.
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| show | Italian navigator who discovered the New World in the service of Spain while looking for a route to China.
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| Hernan Cortes | show 🗑
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| Aztec | show 🗑
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| show | Spanish explorer who conquered the Incas in what is now Peru and founded the city of Lima (1475-1541)
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| Mayan | show 🗑
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| show | In 1494 an agreement between Portugal and Spain, declaring that newly discovered lands to the west of an imaginary line in the Atlantic Ocean would belong to Spain and newly discovered lands to the east of the line would belong to Portugal.
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| Jacques Cartier | show 🗑
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| Constantinople | show 🗑
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| Humanism | show 🗑
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| show | Rich and relatively powerful Florentine Banker who sponsored the Platonic Academy and other early renaissance establishments.
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| show | A discussion group sponsored by Cosimo de Medici and headed by Marsilo Ficino. It discussed the philosophies and ideals of Plato and his followers.
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| show | Headed the Platonic Academy in Florence. Cosimo de Medici was his Patron.
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| “returning to the sources” | show 🗑
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| Johannes Gutenberg | show 🗑
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| show | A workshop in which documents were copied by hand for sale to upper and middle class.
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| Patrons | show 🗑
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| Leonardo Da Vinci | show 🗑
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| Donatello | show 🗑
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| Michelangelo | show 🗑
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| show | Served as the model for a ruthless ruler in Machiavelli’s “The Prince”.
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| show | In 1445, the Florentine government opened this shelter to deal with the large with the large amounts of abandoned children.
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| show | One of the leading painters of the Florentine renaissance, developed a highly personal style. Painted The Birth of Venus and Springtime or Primavera.
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| Jan Van Eyck | show 🗑
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| Visual perspective | show 🗑
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| show | Headed the project to create a set of bronze doors for the baptistry of the cathedral in Florence. His "Gates of Paradise" showed old testament scenes created with sense of visual perspective that was considered revolutionary for the time.
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| Filippo Brunelleschi | show 🗑
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| show | Term used by Florentines to describe 30% of the urban population, including wealthier merchant, the leading artisans, notaries, doctors and other professionals.
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| "Little People" | show 🗑
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| Giorgio Vasari | show 🗑
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| show | A French word meaning “rebirth,” first used by art historian and critic Giorgio Vasari to refer to the rebirth of the culture of classical antiquity.
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| show | Sworn associations of free men in Italian cities led by merchant guilds that sought political and economic independence from local nobles.
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| Popolo | show 🗑
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