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| the French word for rebirth |
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| A system in which cities are the center of political, economic, and social life. |
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| The elected leader of Venice |
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| Family that ruled Florence |
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| A Dominican preacher who led the rebellion of Florence in the late 1400s |
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| Was the 1st king with his name of Spain, and 5th of the Holy Roman Empire, he let his troops ransack Rome on May 5, 1527 |
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| Wrote the book The Prince. He believed that political activity should not be restricted by moral principles |
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| Described the ideals of nobility as character, grace, talent, military and physical ability, classical education, and the following of a code of conduct |
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| The sum of money given by the wife's family to the husband upon marriage |
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| A high regard for human life and worth |
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| Considered the "father of the Italian Renaissance humanism", he did more than anyone else at the time to foster the developement of humanism |
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| An Italian author of the 14th century who wrote The Divine Comedy, which is about the soul's journey to salvation |
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| A British writer who wrote The Canterbury Tales; his dialect became the chief ancestor to the modern English language |
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| She wrote The Book of the City of Ladies, and she fought in the defense of the ability of women |
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| History, moral philosophy, eloquence, grammar, logic, poetry, mathematics, music, and astronomy |
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| An Italian painter who was able to master the laws of perspective, making his paintings seem more alive |
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| An Italian artist, mathematician, engineer, and anatomist (among other things); his most famous works of art are the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper |
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| An Italian artist of the Renaissance; his most famous work is The School of Athens |
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| An Italian artist who painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel and created the sculpture, David |
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| A Flemish painter who was the first to use oil paint, which let him add incredible detail to his works |
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| Durer (with an umlacht(two dots) on the u) |
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| A German artist who blended Italian perspective with Northern detail |
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| He believed that Christianity should show people how to live good lives on a daily basis rather than to provide a system of beliefs that people have to practice in order to be saved; he wrote The Praise of Folly |
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| The release from all or part of the punishment of sin |
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| German; He solved the problem of salvation by saing that faith in God alone would make a person worthy of salvation; was made an outlaw by the Edict of Worms |
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| A monk who sold indulgences with the slogan, "As soon as the coin in the coffer rings, the soul from pergatory springs." |
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| An agreement that formally accepted the division of Christianity in Germany |
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| A priest in Zurich, who helped start a Protestant movement there in Switzerland |
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| French, but after converting to Protestantism, he fled to Switzerland; one of the leaders of Protestantism after he published his book, Institutes of the Christian Religion |
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| King of England; he had 6 wives, severed British ties with the Catholic Church after the pope refused to grant his annulment from his first wife, Catherine of Aragon |
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| One of Calvin's ideas, which meant that God had determined in advance who would be saved and who wouldn't be |
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| Queen of England, known as the "Bloody Mary", because she had many Protestants killed/executed while she was in power; sister to Elizabeth I |
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| A Spanish nobleman who founded the Society of Jesus, known as the Jesuits |
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| A Chinese pigtail(hair) that men were forced to have |
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| Seperate military units (China) |
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| He led seven voyages around the Indian Ocean by request of Emperor Yong Le, the first one in 1405. |
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| He is considered to be one ofthe greatest emperors in Chinese history; he reigned for 61 years, calmed unrest in China, gained the support of the Chinese scholars and was tolerant of the Christians. He ruled in the Qing Dynasty. |
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| The White Lotus Rebellion |
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| The rebellion lauched by unhappy peasants under Qianlong's(Qing Dynasty) rule; it weakened the Dynasty because of the enourmous expenditures it caused. |
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| The founder of the Ming Dynasty |
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| Leader of the revolt against the Ming Dynasty |
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| Emperor of China during the Ming Dynasty; moved the capital from NAnjing to Beijing and seven voyages of exploration took place under his rule. |
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| He wrote The Dream of the Red Chamber in 1791 |
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| A ceramic made of fine clay |
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| Private business based on profit |
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| A group of dozens, sometimes even hundreds, of related families |
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| A Japanese form of theatre |
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| A Japanese poet who, in his poetry, was mostly concerned with the meaning of life. |
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| A Japanese warrior without a master who seeked employment all over the country |
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| The elite guard of the Ottomans |
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| Central government appointed officials in the Ottoman Empire |
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| The Ottoman supreme ruler; the king/emperor |
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| Sacred place; home of the sultan |
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| A group of religious advisors; Ottoman Empire |
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| The chief minister of the council who led the meetings; Ottoman Empire |
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| Ottoman sultan who identified himself as the caliph in order to have more influence over the people he conquered. |
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| A system in which the ruler holds total power |
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| The Russian word for Caesar; the title of ruler |
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| He strengthened the power of the monarchy in France by taking away political and military rights from the Huguenots |
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| Considered the "Sun King" because he called himself the source of light for all his people |
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| He increased the wealth and power of France by following the ideas of mercantilism |
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| Frederick William the Great Elector |
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| He laid the foundation for a strong Prussian State |
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| The son of Frederick William, he was the first "king" of Prussia |
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| He is known as "The Terrible", he was the first Rusian ruler to be called czar |
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| He "westernized" Russia, built St. Petersburg |
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| States that are part of the continent as distinguished from peninsulas or offshore islands |
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| Made Catholicism official religion of France but also let the Huguenots worship freely |
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