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Mannerism- reaction against the simplicity, symmetry, and idealism of High Renaissance Art. It made room for the strange, even the abnormal, and gave free reign to the subjectivity of the artist. The name reflects a tendency by artist to empoy mannered techniques- distortions that expressed individual perceptions and feelings
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Arrangments agreed to by the holy roman emperor and the major German territorial rulers in 1356 that helped stabilize Germany.
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Large landed estate that characterized most Spanish Colonies.
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Legal grant of the right to the labor of a specifc number of Indians for a particular period of time. This was used as a Spanish strategy for exploiting the labor of the natives
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Military Brokers from whom one could hire a mercenary army.
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Scholarship of the Renaissance that championed the study of Latin and Greek Classics and Christian chuch fathers as an end in itself and as a guide to reforming society. Some claim it is an un-Christian philosophy emphasizing human dignity, individualism and secular values.
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The Treaty of Lodi, also known as the Peace of Lodi was a peace agreement between Milan, Naples, and Florence signed on April 9, 1454 at Lodi in Lombardy, on the banks of the Adda.
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Any of a series of intermittent civil wars in the 15th century between the English royal houses of York and Lancaster and their supporters. The wars began in the 1450s and ended in victory for the Lancastrians in 1485 with the death of Richard III at the Battle of Bosworth Field and the accession of Henry VII to the throne.
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river 150 miles (240 kilometers) SW Bulgaria & NE Greece flowing from W end of Rhodope Mountains SE into the Aegean
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