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Georgia High School Graduation Test SS
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12th Grade
03/02/2011

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Renaissance
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Means rebirth
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Florence
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main Italian city-states in which the Renaissance began.
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Machiavelli
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The renaissance man!
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Leonardo da Vinci
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the original renaissance man
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Michelangelo
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Renaissance artist who is best known for his idealized paintings
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Humanists
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studied the history, philosophy, and poetry of the ancient Greeks and Roman
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Petrarch
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argued that no conflict existed between secular achievements and a person's relationship with God
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Dante
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took the humanist ideas of his contemporaries and incorporated them into literature writing in the common lanauage
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Erasmus
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Was a Dutch Christian Humanist who believed in reforming the Catholic Church from within the institution.
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Protestament Reformation
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was a movement against certain practices of the Catholic Church which has dominated religious practice and politics in Europe during for hundreds of years.
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Martin Luther
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Wrote the 95 Theses
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John Calvin
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was an early convert to Protestantism
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Johannes Gutenberg
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Printed the first Bible in Europe made with moveable type.
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Jesuits
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groups of Catholics who belived in restoring Catholicism
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Council of Trent
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was a body of Catholic Bishops who met over a period of 18 years to work on perfoming corrupt practices within the faith
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Vasco da Gama;s
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voyages to Eastern Africa and Western India
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Christopher Columbus
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an Italian sailing under the flag pf spain, set out to find a westward rounte from Spain to India
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Ferdinand Magellan
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sailing under the flag of Spain, was the first European to lead to lead an expedition that succesfully circumnavigated the earth.
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Mercantilism
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large supply of gold or silver
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Columbian Exchange
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large-scale exchange of plants, diseases, animals and people between the eastern adn western hemispheres
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Copernicus
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heliocentric solar system
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