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Where did the Renaissance begin?

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Northern Italy

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Which cities were the centers of universities and schools?

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Northern Italian cities

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What did booming commerce affect?

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Businesses could employ lots of people, and competition started

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What happened in 1494?

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French King Charles VIII invaded Italy

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What was French King Charles VIII’s hope in invading Italy?

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claiming the thrones of Milan and Naples

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What did French King Charles VIII conquere?

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Florence and Naples

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Who did the Spanish join forces with?

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Papacy, the Holy Roman Empire, Venice, and Milan

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Why did the Spanish join forces?

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To drive out the French

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What happened in 1499?

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French King Louis XII again invaded Italy

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What happened in 1525?

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Spanish troops defeated the French and drove them out of Italy

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French King Louis XII

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invaded Italy in 1499

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What happened in 1527?

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Spanish soldiers attacked Rome

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Charles V, the Habsburg King

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King of Spain and the Holy Roman Emperor

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What did Charles V, the Habsburg King do?

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Claimed Milan and Naples as his territory and appointed princes

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What does Renaissance mean?

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Rebirth

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What does the Renaissance refer to?

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Europe’s cultural rebirth

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Renaissance

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Time when changed from dark ages to times of rebirth and significance

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Humanism

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Study of men, main focus of renaissance leaders

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Italian Francesco Petrarca

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Believed that French scholasticism was too abstract.

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Asceticism

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severe self-discipline and avoidance of all forms of indulgence, typically for religious reasons.

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Leon Alberdi

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Civic engagement- serve good and the city-state

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Lorenzo Valla

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Latin guy, proved donation of Constantine was a medieval forgery

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Alberdi, Valla and civic humanists

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looked to the Greeks

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Platonic Academy of Florence

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Civic Humanists place to draw together

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NeoPlatonists
blend teachings of plato with doctrines of christians
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Members of academy?
Duke Cosimo de Medici, Pico della Mirandolla
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Niccolo Machiavelli
1498 became Republics high level official
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Medici Family
the merchants who had overturned the Florentine Republic and set themselves up as the cities dukes
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What did France do in 1494?
Invaded Italy and neared Florence, caused Medici Family to flea
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Wheat happened when Italy neared Florence?
Florence became a republic
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What happened in 1512?
Medici returned to power and Machiavelli went into exile
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What did Machiavelli write about?
A necessary evil of a politic
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Why did Renaissance end?
the Dutch, the English, the Spanish, and the Portuguese had established new sea routes to Asia which decreased Italians wealth
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The political reason for renaissance's end?
Catholic churches response to the protestant reformation
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England King Henry VIII
started own religion
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John Calvin
Swiss Preacher, started own religion
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German Cleric Martin Luther
started own religion
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Catholic Reformation
response to the three outbreaks of religious movements breaking away from the church
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Church did what?
Banned books, and persecuted artists and scholars who had different views
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Paradoxically
in a seemingly absurd or self-contradictory way.
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Where was Desiderius Erasmus from?
Rotterdam (Holland)
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Desiderius Erasmus
Scholar who translated New Testament into Greek
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Books Desiderius Erasmus wrote?
In praise of Folly and Complaint of Peace
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What was Praise of Folly by Erasmus about?
worldly corruption and ignorance
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What was Complaint of Peace by Erasmus about?
Christian ethics
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Pacifism
the belief that any violence, including war, is unjustifiable under any circumstances, and that all disputes should be settled by peaceful means.
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Thomas Moore
English aristrocrat and Englands Lord Chancellor under King Henry VIII
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Who wrote Utopia?
Thomas Moore
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What was Utopia about?
A perfect world in which one can pursue virtues
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Henry VIII
Made Church of England
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How did Moore die?
Refused to recognize Henry as head of the national church and was executed.
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Fancois Rabelais
influenced by Erasmus, wrote "Gargantua and Pantagruel"
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How was Rabelais different from Erasmus?
Appealed to different audiences

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