WORLD HISTORY: Renaissance and Reformation

Question 1

A true Renaissance Man, his notebooks are filled with science, technology, biology, and art.

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Leonardo DaVinci

Question 2

Master German engraver and woodcutter. He spread Renaissance ideas north.

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Albrecht Durer

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A government led by religious leaders.

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Theocracy

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Flemish painter who used oil paints to create layers of subtle colors and depth.

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Jan Van Eyck

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A 1555 agreement declaring that the religion of each German state would be decided by its ruler

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Peace of Augsburg

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Wrote the controversial political guidebook known as The Prince.

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Niccolo Machiavelli

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English playwright whose works include Romeo and Juliet, MacBeth, and Hamlet.

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William Shakespeare

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The Father of Humanism. Embraced classical learning.

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Petrarch

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He painted the fresco on the Sistine Chapel ceiling as well as the marble David sculpture.

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Michelangelo

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Author of the Courtier, which taught men how to be a "universal man."

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Baldassare Castiglione

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Goldsmith of Mainz, Germany who invented the movable type printing press.

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Johann Gutenberg

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Founded the Catholic Order of Priests known as the Jesuits.

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Ignatius of Loyola

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A form of painting where paint is placed on wet plaster.

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Fresco

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Christian humanist who wrote Utopia, which remains a classic of political theory.

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Thomas More

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Christian humanist who wrote the satire The Praise of Folly in 1509.

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Desiderius Erasmus

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