Renaissance Europe
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| show | (1469-1527) Wrote The Prince which contained a secular method of ruling a country. "End justifies the means."
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| show | Historians' name for the eastern portion of the Roman Empire from the fourth century onward, taken from 'Byzantion,' an early name for Constantinople, the Byzantine capital city. The empire fell to the Ottomans in 1453.
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| show | Established themselves as the dukes of Milan and extended their power over all of Lombardy. worked to build a strong centralized state.
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| Ferdinand and Isabella | show 🗑
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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 | 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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| Christopher Columbus | show 🗑
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| show | Built their capital city at Tenochtitlan; increased their power until they dominated central Mexico; built causeways, pyramids, marketplaces, and palaces; ended when conquered by Spanish explorers in the 1500s.
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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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| show | French explorer who explored the St. Lawrence river and laid claim to the region for France (1491-1557)
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| show | Capital of the Byzantine Empire, named after Constantine I. Sacked by the Turks in 1453.
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| show | A Renaissance intellectual movement in which thinkers studied classical texts and focused on human potential and achievements.
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| Cosimo de Medici | show 🗑
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| Platonic Academy | show 🗑
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| Marsilo Ficino | show 🗑
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| “returning to the sources” | show 🗑
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| show | German Goldsmith and inventor of the Printing Press. His most famous books are the Gutenberg bibles.
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| show | Rich upper or middle class people who would give money and support to artists and intellectuals.
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| show | Italian painter, engineer, musician, and scientist. He made engineering and scientific observations that were in some cases centuries ahead of their time. As a painter he is best known for The Last Supper (c. 1495) and Mona Lisa (c. 1503).
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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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| Sandro Botticelli | show 🗑
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| show | Widely considered the greatest of the painters from the north countries. Attributed with the creation of oil painting.
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| Lorenzo Ghiberti | show 🗑
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| show | Famous Italian architect who designed the dome for the cathedral in Florence.
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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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| show | An art historian who first used the term "Renaissance" to describe the art of “rare men of genius” such as his contemporary Michelangelo. Through their works, he thought, the glory of the classical past had been reborn after centuries of darkness.
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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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| Popolo | show 🗑
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