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Western Civ Final
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Undergraduate 1
12/13/2010

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Mycenae
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During the Helladic period (bronze age) what city best represents the re-civilization and what was going there (conquered Crete... Agamimnon from here)
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Athens
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During helladic period stands out the most B/c of the empire and the power they achieved as well as the art and architecture
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Alexandria
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In hellenistic period after Alexander died and the empire gets split up.. what city represents that cosmopolitan nature(founded by Alexander)
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Nicaea
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Established the Trinity as the orthodox doctrine of the church
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Thales
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Father of philosophy he was the first to come up with natural explainations
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Thomas Aquinas
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Who made it okay to be a christian and scientist
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Homer
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Who wrote th Iliad
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Vergil
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who wrote the Aeneid
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Hastings
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Battle in 1066- changd the histor of the west- changed language froom german to 80% Latin
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Hastings
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Battle in 1066- changd the histor of the west- changed language froom german to 80% Latin
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Socrates
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Executed in athens for corrupting the youth by making them think outside the box
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Great Schism
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Catholic church divided and now had two popes - the counsil of constance re-established one pope
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Sumerians
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who established the first civilitation on mesopetamia
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Medici's
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Renaissance starts in florence - what family was the patrons of art(and put up all the money)
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Petrarch
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Father of Humanism
Looking at ancient liturature for own sake
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Machiavelli
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Governments created by humans not gods
Who wrote prince
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Giotto
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First major Florentine artist
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Indulgences
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Grace sold by the churches to people
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Zwingli
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Who was the humanist, scholar, priest, and former military chaplian that led the swiss reformation in Zurich
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Huguenots
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Protestant minority.. calvinists.. pacifists also know as Anabaptists
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Ignatius Loyola
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soldier who founded the jesuits aka the society of jesus and the army of the pope
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Cortes
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who defeated the Aztecs and conquered Mexico
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Pizzaro
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who defeated the Incas in Peru
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Price Revolution
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Term referring to inflation in the 16th century
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Henry Vlll
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who started the reformation of England
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Michelangelo
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who was commissioned to pait the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican
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Michelangelo, Leonardo, Raphael
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Were the greek triad of high renaissance painters
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The reasons Humanism spread
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Erasmus(called most important Christian humanist in Europe) Invention of the movable metal tyoe
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Erasmus
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Wrote the Preys of Folley
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Shakespeare
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Supreme figure for english drama during the reign of Queen Elisabeth
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Erasmus
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Frist Greek Testament was written by
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Luther
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Believed that salvation is based on faith alone (sola fide)
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Weakness of the Renaissance
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1) began with a broad view of the world and retreated to a narrow view and turned latin into a fossilized laguage
2) no serius philosophical thinking outside politics and ethics
3) no 1st rate literature after Patrarch
4) ot able to translate thoery into practice
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Portugal
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what country discovered the all water route to India
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Convertible Husbandry
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way to use land year around
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Cannons and guns
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key advantage westerners had over Chinese and Arabs
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Marsilio Facino
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Who attempted to synthesize Plato and Christianity in a Florence library
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Vasco Balboa
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who discovered the isthmus of panama
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Calvin
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who created theocracy in Geneva also leader of Swiss reformation
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Zwingli
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who created theocracy in Zurich
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Humanism
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valued ancient liturature as a support to theology
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Pericles
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the ruler of athens during the golden age
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Henry the II
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invented trial by jury, setup circuit judges
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Lorenzo Valla
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the document Donation of constantine was proved to be a forgery
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Ficino
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the Italian humanist responsible for reintrudcing the platonic dialogue back to the west
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Dante
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Produced The Devine Comedy
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# 39
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is B mercenary soldiers
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