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My. People began to focus on worldly desires
Secular
Was famous for bankingThe most wealthiest family is Medici.
Florence
Rich land-owning nobles and rich Merchants
Urban noble
A famous human scholar he studied Roman writings
Petrarch
He was a scientist, artist, inventor, and engineer. He pointed the Mona Lisa and the last supper.
Leonardo davinci
The blending of light and shadow to create edges.
Chiaroscuro
During the late 1400’s
The northern Renaissance
Best play writer known to man
Shakespeare
The best known Christian humanist
Desiderius Erasmus
In 1520 peasant revolts nobles = brutally crushed.
Revolts in Germany
Crowned holy roman emperor in 1519
Charles V
From France founds Methodist church
John Calvin
Religious belief that God has already decided who will go to heaven and who won’t, or you know where you are going before you get there
Predestination
Founder of the Church of England. And the head of it. Gets married 6 times and beheads two queens
Henry VIII
Daughter of the first marriage. Catholic, mom is Catherine. She tries to make England Catholic again. Dies in 1558. Known as Bloody Mary.
Mary I