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- What factors led to the beginning of the renaissance in northern Europe? Urban merchants became wealthy enough to sponsor artists, and people lived close together in towns, allowing for the spread of ideas. - How did the invention of the printing press help spread learning and Renaissance ideas? It made it possible to produce books cheaper so that more people could afford them. This made reading more common and also spread new information. - Albert Durer- Produced woodcuts and engravings, portrayed religious subjects, classical myths, realistic landscapes. - Jan Van Eyck- used recently developed oil paints to develop techniques, realistic details, and personality of his subjects. - Han Holbein- Painted King Henry VIII - Pieter Bruegel- interested in realistic details and individual people, captured scenes from everyday life - Thomas Moore- tried to show a better model of society, he wrote the book Utopia to show an ideal society - Erasmus- wrote the book The Praise of ...
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Renaissance

I couldn't open up the study Guide questions - Renaissance- Rebirth or reborn a period of time that changed history  • humanism- An intellectual movement that focused on human potential and achievements.  • secular- Concerned with worldly rather than spiritual matters  • patron- Supports artists especially financially  • perspective- Artistic technique creates 3-D appearances  • vernacular- Everyday language of people in a region or country 2. Discuss which of Italy’s advantages was most important for creating the Renaissance. Why?- I think a wealthy merchant class because people who had a lot of money, such as the Medici family (patrons) were able to support people financially, especially Renaissance artists. MAIN IDEAS 3. What are some of the characteristics of the “Renaissance man” and “Renaissance woman”?- Renaissance men who excelled in many fields were praised as universal men. A young man should be charming, witty, well educated, know h...
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Diseases

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Cyprian Plague 1. Pandemic- an outbreak of a pandemic disease across a whole country.  epidemic- a widespread occurrence of an infectious disease in a community at a particular time. 2.  Named after the first known victim, the Christian bishop of Carthage, the Cyprian plague entailed diarrhea, vomiting, throat ulcers, fever, and gangrenous hands and feet. 3. Possibly starting in Ethiopia, it passed through Northern Africa, into Rome, then onto Egypt and northward. 4. Diarrhea, vomiting, throat ulcers, fever, and gangrenous hands and feet. It is spread by the people living in the area of the origin of the disease.  5. Every time the disease infected it infected about 5,000 people a day.  6. Couldn't find the overall number of people killed by these people but 5,000 people a day would have been a lot of people. 
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Black Plague

Timeline - 1346-  The strain of  Y. pestis  emerges in Mongolia 1347-  Both sides in the siege are decimated and survivors in Caffa escape by sea, leaving behind streets covered with corpses being fed on by feral animals.   1347-  Another Caffan ship docks in Sicily, the crew barely alive. Here the plague kills half the population and moves to Messina. 1347-  The plague arrives in France, brought by another of the Caffa ships docking in Marseille. 1348-  A different plague strain enters Europe through Genoa, brought by another Caffan ship that docks there. 1348-  The plague awakes an anti-Semitic rage around Europe, causing repeated massacres of Jewish communities. 1348- The plague enters England 1348-  The plague hits Marseille, Paris, and Normandy, and then the strain splits, with one strain moving onto the now-Belgian city of Tournai to the east and the other passing through Calais. and Avignon, where 50 percent of the...
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Western Civ

• I Cant Open up the Study Guide - Avignon- C ity in France. Popes would live there for the next 69 years. • Great Schism-  known as the event when the split in the church began. Eventually forced three popes to resign. Left the papacy greatly weakened. • John Wycliffe-  Englishman who preached that Jesus Christ, not the pope, was the true head of the church. Believed that the clergy should own no land or wealth. Taught that the bible alone was the final authority for Christian life. • Jan Hus- The  professor in Bohemia, who taught that the authority of the bible was higher than that of the pope. was excommunicated in 1412. was seized by church leaders. tried as a heretic. burned at the stake. • bubonic plague- A  deadly disease that spread across Asia and Europe in the mid-14th century, killing millions of people. • Hundred Years’ War- A  deadly disease that spread across Asia and Europe in the mid-14th century, killing millions of people. • Joa...
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Western Civ

 • How did this event affect the course of English history? William wins and unifies control of the lands and laid the foundation for centralized government. - How did Henry II strengthen England’s legal system?-  introduced to use of a jury; common law -  How did Philip strengthen the central government in France?- H e established royal officials called bailiffs; sent bailiffs to every French district to preside of King's court and collect taxes. - Why is this document so important?- I t grants certain basic legal/political rights and it guaranteed what are now considered basic legal rights in the US - How did Louis strengthen the monarchy while weakening feudal ties?- C reated a French appeals court that could overturn the decisions of local courts - How was this meeting a major step toward a democratic government?- S erve as a model for later kings and contained commoners; weakened the great lord's power and had a check on royal power - William the Co...
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Western civ

• I couldn't get into the reading guide - three-field system-  A system of farming developed in medieval Europe, in which farmland was divided into three fields of equal size, and each of these was successively planted with a winter crop, planted with a spring crop, and left unplanted. • guild-  A medieval association of people working at the same occupation, which controlled its members' wages and prices. • Commercial Revolution-  The expansion of trade and business that transformed European economies during the 16th and 17th centuries. • burgher-  A medieval merchant-class town dweller. • vernacular-  The everyday language of people in a region or country. • Thomas Aquinas-  A scholar who argued that the most basic religious truths could be proved by logical argument. He wrote the Summa Theologicae, which was influenced by Aristotle, combined Ancient Greek thought with the Christian thought of his time. • scholastics-  Scholars who gat...
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