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Renaissance
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11th Grade
01/12/2010

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Renaissance
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rebirth, the rediscovery of arts and philosiphy
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Italy
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hub where the renaissance basis from because of its easy trade routes
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Medici family
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wealthy educated family that resided in florence and started the growth of art
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despots
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leaders in the city states that gained power through force and trickery
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condottieri
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leaders of private bands of soliders
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nicolo machiavelli
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scholor that wrote "the prince" a handbook that stated in order to gain power you had to forget ideals
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"the prince"
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states whatever is takes to keep power must be done, lie, steal, cheat, etc.
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Humanism
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system of thought or action concerned with human interests and values
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Petrarch
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humanist that collected old manuscript and put them together. Wrote poetry about laura and thought the church was wrong to neglect reality
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Leonardo Da Vinci
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known as the all time renaissance man, could write with both hands and backwards
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Giotto
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the first to make art appear alive/move
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Raphael
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famous for the paintings of religous figures (Madonna's/ Mary)
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Donatello
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sculpture who studied the human body
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Michelangelo
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sculpture, artichtech and painter asked by pope julius to paint the sistine chapel
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Pieta
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painting from michelangelo of mary holding jesus after his
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david
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famous sculpture by michelangelo
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rerevolutionized printing
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invention of paper and movable type
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Gutenberg
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first european to print the bible by movable type
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Erasmus
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said men and women were led by ignorance/ uneducation and the best thing we can do is educate ourselves
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Sir thomas More
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lawyer that wrote a book called utopia
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Utopia
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a perfect society
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Van Eyck
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portraits that showed lanscapes
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Rembrandt
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portraits of human characters
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shakespeare
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wrote about how people interact with nature, hamlit, romeo and juliet, etc
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Cervantes
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spanish writer that wrote donquixote, the last example of knighthood
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Song Dynasty
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period in which china invented a lot of new technologies for farming, the curved plow, silk and cotton production increased
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abacus
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first generation calculator
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porcelin
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pottery made from white clay
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Ming Vase
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most precious and expensive porcelin
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footbinding
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process done to chinese s to make them more beautiful, feet were wrapped tightly at age four crunching them
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Kublai Kan
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Mongol emperor of china who conquers china
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marco polo
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served as offical in mongol goverenment, brought back silks and spices to europe exciting people about going to china
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Japan
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powerful country because it is surrouned by water
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typhoon
Definition
violent water storms
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Mount Fuji
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dormant volcano in Japan
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Shinto
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Japanese religon ' the way of the gods"
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Torii
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the symbol for japanese shinto
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Sameri
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warrior similar to a knight
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Showgun
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supreme general of entire country
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Bushido
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code of conduct ' the way of the warrior"
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HariKari
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a sameri must kill himself if he betrays the showgun
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KamiKaze
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divind wind that stopped mongols from invading japan
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