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Medici Family- significance and important members
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Wealthy family that governed and were patrons of the arts
- Giovanni de’ Medici- founder of the dynasty; one of the first modern people
- Cosimo de’ Medici- became the unofficial ruler of Florence
- Lorenzo the Magnificent- lavish patron of the arts
2
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Michelangelo
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David statue
statues reflect human emotion and religiosity
3
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Petrarch
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First “modern” writer
4
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Boccacio
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Decameron, a set of tales that reflect upon the human condition
5
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Baldassare Castiglione
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Book of the Courtier; Etiquette, manners of the modern gentleman
6
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Niccolo Machiavelli
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The Prince; how governments rule immorally, “the end justifies the means”
7
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Laura Cereta
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humanist and early feminist
8
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Desiderius Erasmus
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Humanist, wanted to reform the Catholic church, wrote satires
wrote new Greek and Latin editions of the Bible
9
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Thomas More
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Utopia
10
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Johann Gutenberg
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Interchangeable moveable type
AP Euro
flashcards
Decks in class (15)
# Cards
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Renaissance10
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The 18th Century: The Expansion of Europe and the Enlightenment29
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The French Revolution, Napoleon, and the Congress of Vienna29
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Mercantilism and the Rise of Capitalism; The Industrial Revolution17
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Protestant Reformation, Catholic and Counter-Reformations, Wars of Religion (1517-1648)21
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The Growth of European Nation States in the 1500s and 1600s37
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The Growth and Suppression of Democracy from the Age of Metternich to the First World War20
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19th Century "-Isms": Nationalism, Ideologies, and Culture12
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Imperialism (1870-1914)26
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World War I (1914-1918)21
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The Russian Revolution and Communism in Russia16
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Democracy, Depression, Dictatorship, Aggression (1919-1939)37
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World War II: Its Causes, Course, and Aftermath29
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Postwar Europe: Recovery, Communism, and Cold War (1945-1970)18
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Trends in Contemporary Europe8
