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Renaissance
Renaissance
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9th Grade
05/18/2010

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Humanism
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an approach in study, philosophy, or practice that focuses on human values and concerns
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Patrarch
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"The father of Humanism" also known for creating the modern italian language along with others, and was a renaissance Humanist.
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Medici Family
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A politically powerful banking family from Florence. Their wealth was rooted from trading textiles and had led up to the medici bank. At one point the medicis had control of all of florence.
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Southern Renaissance
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Northern Renaissance
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Castiglione - Courtier
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Castiglione - Author of the Courtier a book about what a perfect Courtier would be, and gets to what the perfect woman is.
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Machiavelli - The Prince
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The author of The Prince and considered a textbook "Renaissance Man". He also wrote " The Art of War" which was a book on how to fight. The Prince was about political power in the western world.
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Hanseatic League
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an economic alliance of trading cities and their guilds that established and maintained a trade monopoly along the coast of Northern Europe. They kept Europe's economy in check.
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