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Renaissance and Reformation
World History Renaissance and Reformation
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9th Grade
08/21/2011

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Medici Family
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a powerful banking family.
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Renaissance
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means rebirth, lasted from 1300 to 1600 a.d, lead to a renewed interest in the arts and education.
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Humanism
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intellectual movement focused on human potential and achievment.
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Secular
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worldy rather than spiritual matters and church leaders becoming more worldy.
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Patrons
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People that support the arts financially.
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Baldassare Castiglione
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Wrote the Courtier in 1528 that taught how to be a Renaissance man.
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Isabella D'Este
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Built a famous art collection,skilled in politics, when her husband was taken captive she defended mantua and won his release.
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Donatello
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made sculptures more realistic by carving natural postures and expressions.
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Raphael
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learned from studying the works of Leonardo and Michelangelo.
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Sophanisha Anguissola
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first woman artist to gain an international reputation.
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Vernacular
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language or dialect spoken by ordinary people in a certain country or region.
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Petrarch
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one of the earliest and most influential humanist, wrote in italian and in latin, great poet.
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Boccaccio
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best known for writing the Decameron.
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Niccolo Machiavelli
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Examines what it take to keep power inspite of his enemies.
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Albrecht Durer
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famous german artist, helped spread Renaissance ideas.
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Hans Holbein
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specialized in painting portraits that were almost photographic.
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Jan van Eyck
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first great Flemish Renaissance painter, used recently developed oil based paints.
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Pieter Bruegal
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interested in realistic details and individual people, captured scenes from everyday peasant life.
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Erasmus
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wrote the Fraise of Folly in 1509. Believed in Christianity of the Heart not one of ceremonies.
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John Wycliffe
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advocated for church reform, denied that the Pope had the right to worldy powers. taught that the Bible had more authority than Church leaders.
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Johann Tetzal
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sold indulgences, a friar,raised money to rebuild St. Peter's Cathedral in Rome.
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Charles the 5
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Devout catholic, opposed Luther's teachings, controlled a vast empire, Issued the Edict of Worms.
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Edict of Worms
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an imperial order, declared Luther an outlaw and heratic, no one could give Luther food or shelter.
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Act of Supremacy
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called on people to take an oath recognizing the divorce and accepting Henry not the pope as the head of England's church.
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Edward the 6th
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became king at nine years old, was guided by adult advisors, almost constantly ill, reigned for six years.
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Huldrych Zwingli
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a catholic priest,influenced by christian humanism, and the reforms of luther. openly attacked abuses in the catholic church.
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Theocracy
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a government controlled by religious leaders.
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John Knox
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A Scottish preacher, put Calvins ideas to work in Scotland, each community church was governed by a group of elders or presbyters, followers were called presbyterians.
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Huguenots
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Calvin's followers in France. As many as 12,000 were killed in an attack on August 24, 1572
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Ignatius of Loyola
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wrote spiritual excersises in 1522,injured in war.
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Inquisition
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A papal judicial process estabolished to try and punish those thought to be heretics.
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