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| 209818652 | Black Death | A period in the 14th century when the plague spread through out Europe killing 45-60% of the population. The plague entered Europe in 1347 from Caffa and spread through trading routes. | |
| 209818653 | Brunelleschi | Italian architect, whose works in Florence include the dome of the cathedral, the Pazzi chapel of Santa Croce, and the church of San Lorenzo | |
| 209818654 | Baldassare Castiglione: The Book of the Courtier | A book written in northern Italy describing the perfect courtier and the ideal woman. | |
| 209818655 | Christian Humanism | The northern views of the renaissance- were made with muted color pallets that reflected the surrounding weather environment. The body was seen as needing to be covered and was much more modest. Secularism was not an aspect of christian humanism. | |
| 209818656 | Leonardo da Vinci | A true Reniassance man who was an artist, architect, engineer, and inventor. He traveled throughout all of Italy doing art, until he moved to France. Famous for the Mona Lisa, The Last Supper, and the Vitruvian Man. | |
| 209818657 | Dante Alighieri: The Divine Comedy | this poem describes a travel made by pilgrims through hell, purgatory, and heaven. It shows the afterlife and holds much symbolic meaning. | |
| 209818658 | De Medici family | A very powerful family in Florence that started the first bank. They ran a mafia-like business that became very corrupt. This being the case, when Leo X, a member of the De Medici family, he drove the church to bankruptcy. | |
| 209818659 | Donatello | early master of Florentine art during the renaissance, worked for Cosimo de Medici, made first life-size nude sculpture of David since ancient times. | |
| 209818660 | Albrecht Dürer | Artist in the Northern Renaissance who was extremely skilled at wood-cutting and print-making, renaissance man who traveled to Italy to learn about Italian Renaissance, known for extremely detailed works. | |
| 209818661 | El Greco | A Spanish artist who was known fr his abstract work. He painted images that tried to bring people closer to the church and to not sin. Most famous piece of art was The Count of Orgaz. | |
| 209818662 | Erasmus: The Praise of Folly | This story describes a woman named Folly in a positive way as a woman who made procreation possible and provides comfort to men who fell victim to adultery. The story also contains much satire. | |
| 209818663 | Johannes Gutenberg: The Printing press | The inventor of the first printing press. This printing press was created in 1445 by Johannes Gutenberg during the Renaissance era. | |
| 209818664 | Humanism | A way in defining the Renaissance. There are 4 parts to the word which are individualism, secularism, classicism,and virtu. All of the terms together mean a society in which people focus on being their own person, it is not associated with the church, it focuses on Greek and Roman studies, and men develop more masculine and manly traits. | |
| 209818665 | Hundred Years War | Series of wars between England and France over France's border; Joan of Arc eventually helped expel English from France's countryside until she was captured by English and burned in 1415 | |
| 209818666 | Linear Perspective | application of geometry to art which adds realism to drawings and paintings and makes them proportional | |
| 209818667 | Niccoló Machiavelli: The Prince | Niccoló Machiavelli was the author of "The Prince." He was an Italian philosopher/writer. "The Prince" defines all the characteristics of being a great ruler. | |
| 209818668 | Michelangelo | A very famous sculpture and painter during the time of the Renaissance. He work very closely with the Pope and in doing so he created one of his most famous art piece on the top of the Sistine chapel. He is also famous for the sculpture of David. | |
| 209818669 | Sir Thomas More: Utopia | A book that describes the ideal society on an island. This novel reflects the common societal views of the renaissance and contains many humanistic ideas. | |
| 209818670 | Northern Renaissance | portion of the Renaissance north of Italy. The Northern Renaissance focused more on christian humanism, and included more modesty and purity that the Italian Renaissance. This occurred slightly later than the Italian Renaissance. | |
| 209818671 | Patronage | When leaders of Italian city-states and other countries competed for prestige by inviting artists to create works for themselves or for their cities. Ex. Medici's and Isabelle D'Este. | |
| 209818672 | Francesco Petrarch | born July 20, 1304 in Arrezo, Italy. He was an Italian scholar, poet and one of the earliest Renaissance humanists. | |
| 209818673 | Raphael | A famous Italian painter and architect during the time of the Renaissance.He is known to have painted his fellow artists in to his painting such as in the the School of Athens. | |
| 209818674 | Renaissance | The revival of art and literature under the influence of classical models in the 14th-16th centuries. The rebirth of the European culture. | |
| 209818675 | Scholasticism | the system of theological and philosophical teaching predominant in the Middle Ages, based chiefly upon the authority of the church fathers and of Aristotle and his commentators. | |
| 209818676 | Secularism | A term used when describing something that is not associated with the Church. | |
| 209818677 | Jan Van Eyck | Flemish painter in Northern Renaissance during the 15th Century. One of the first to use oil paintings in order to blend colors in his paintings. | |
| 209818678 | Vernacular | expressed or written in the native language of a place | |
| 209818679 | Circumnavigation | refers to traveling around something entirely. Ferdinand Magellan (Spanish) was the first explorer to circumnavigate the globe. | |
| 209818680 | Columbian Exchange | The exchange of plants, animals, diseases, and technologies between the Americas and the rest of the world following Columbus's voyages. | |
| 209818681 | Conquistador | Spanish explorers, soldiers, and adventurers who brought much of the Americas under Spanish control following Europe's discovery of the new world | |
| 209818682 | Hernan Cortes | Spanish conquistador who defeated the Aztecs and conquered Mexico. | |
| 209818683 | Vasco de Gama | A Portuguese explorer who traveled around the tip of Africa to India to find a new trading route after the traditional ones were cut off by the Ottoman Empire. The voyage took him two years to complete. | |
| 209818684 | Robert de la Salle | A French explorer. He explored the Great Lakes region of the United States and Canada, the Mississippi River, and the Gulf of Mexico. | |
| 209818685 | Bartholomew Diaz | A Portuguese explorer who was the first to sail around the tip of Africa. He did so in hope of reaching India and establishing a new trading route, however he was unable to make it much past the Cape of Good Hope in Africa. | |
| 209818686 | Sir Francis Drake | A very famous English explorer. He was the first Englishman to sail around the entire world. n doing so he was able to gain more land for England, defeat spanish ships, and gain more wealth and land for England. | |
| 209818687 | Dutch East India Trading Company | A network of trading created by the Dutch in the 17th century in order to protect trade in the Indian Ocean. | |
| 209818688 | Encomienda | the system, instituted in 1503, under which a Spanish soldier or colonist was granted a tract of land or a village together with its Indian inhabitants. | |
| 209818689 | Ferdinand and Isabella | Rulers of Spain during the late 1400's and 1500's who financed the voyages of Christopher Columbus and lead the reconquista or removal of all Muslim Moors from Spain. | |
| 209818690 | Joint Stock Company | an association of individuals in a business enterprise with transferable shares of stock, much like a corporation except that stockholders are liable for the debts of the business. | |
| 209818691 | Ferdinand Magellan | Spanish explorer who was first to circumnavigate the globe in 1519-1522. | |
| 209818692 | Mercantilism | A belief in the benefits of profitable trading; commercialism. The economic theory that trade generates wealth for a society. | |
| 209818693 | Francisco Pizarro | Spanish conquistador who conquered the Incas in what is now Peru and founded the city of Lima | |
| 209818694 | Reconquista | Removal of all Muslim Moors from Spain under Ferdinand and Isabella | |
| 209818695 | Treaty of Tordesillas | Pope Alexander VI creates the treaty between Spain and Portugal that divides the world in half. Spain gets the land west of the middle of the Atlantic, and Portugal gets the land East of the line. | |
| 209818696 | Triangular Trade | trade between any three points |
