divine
Godlike, or coming from, or having to do with a god.
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Golden Ages
Descartes, Rene
(1596-1650) French intellectual who challenged traditional ideas. He said that human reason was capable of discovering and explaining the laws of nature and man. The idea of human reason being superior to tradition led to the beginning of the Enlightenment, a time of political awakening that became revolution.
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democracy
A system of government in which the citizens hold the legislative, judicial, and executive power, based on majority rule.
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decimal system
Numeric system based on ten. Created by mathematicians during the Gupta golden age in India.
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de Cervantes, Miguel
(1547-1616) Spanish Renaissance writer. His greatest work is the comedic tale Don Quixote.
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Dante
(1265-1321) Italian poet and Renaissance writer. His greatest work is The Divine Comedy.
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Da Vinci, Leonardo
(1452-1519) An Italian painter, sculptor, engineer, and inventor. Famous works include paintings Mona Lisa and The Last Supper. Also left a variety of sketches showing flying machines and underwater boats centuries before the invention of planes and submarines.
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culture
The shared beliefs, customs, practices, and social behavior of a particular nation or people
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cultural diffusion
The spreading of ideas through contact such as trade or war.
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Copernicus, Nicolaus
(1473-1543) Polish astronomer who wrote On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres. Theorized that the Earth orbited the Sun (heliocentric system) and laid the foundations of modern astronomy.
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Pages
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