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Renaissance
Greek/Italian
19
History
9th Grade
01/06/2009

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Beginning of Renaissance
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Florence, Italy
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"Renaissance" means and refers to
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Rebirth; Renewed culture and learning in Western Europe
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As a result of the Crusades
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Trade increased between Europe and Near East
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Controlled Mediterranean Trade
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Venica and Genoa
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Bubonic Plague
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"Black Death"; destroyed 1/4 of the population
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Medici Family
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Ruled Florence, made city center for painters, sculptors, architects and writers
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Cervantes
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Spain's greatest warrior, wrote Don Quixote
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Johannes Gutenberg
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Invented movable type
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Joan Of Arc
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Helped drive English from France in the Hundred Years' War
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John Cabot
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Claimed East coast of North America, know as 13 Colonies for England
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Vasco Da Gama
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Sailed around southern Africa into India
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Galileo
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Founded modern experimental science
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Machiavelli
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The Prince
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Erasmus
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Became most famous humanist writer
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Copernicus
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Polish Astronomer, found Sun as center of Solar System
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Martin Luther
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German monk, became a leader of the Protestant Reformation
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Ferninand Magellan
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Made first voyage around the world
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Jaxques Cartier
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Claimed St. Lawrence River Valley for France
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England defeated
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The Spanish Armanda, opening way for English Colonization in the New World
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