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Cosimo de Medici supported education and the arts, made many business connections in Europe Lorenzo Medici gave power to the lower classes of Italy, but he let his family business decline. Savonorola bonfire of Vanities and Ruled Florence STRICTLY, later exectued by the Pope Petrarch coined the term renaissance, , () Father of the Renaissance. He believed the first two centuries of the Roman Empire to represent the peak in the development of human civilization. Pico della Mirandola Wrote ...

Italian Renaissance The Italian Renaissance was the beginning of the Renaissance, a period of great cultural change and achievement in Europe that spanned the period from the end of the 13th century to about 1600. Jacob Burckhart A 19th century historian who claimed the Renaissance period stood in distinct contrast to the Middle Ages city-states Small independent states mostly in the central and northern Italian peninsula that caused much competition and were not politically unified betwee...

Black Death (The Plague) 1347 Genoese sailors carried cargo along with disease-infested rats and fleas with a disease later called this. Often transmitted person to person- many priests died because cared for the sick. Started with boil, bubo that was a bump the size of a nut or apple and very painful- gave name. Next came bleeding under skin with spots and blotches. Finally person coughed violently and spit blood and death followed in 2 or 3 days. Not enough time, people, and places to bur...

Humanism the scholarly interest in the study of classical texts, values and styles of Greece and Rome. Humanism contributed to the promotion of a liberal arts education based on the study of the classics, rhetoric, and history Christian Humanism Northern European Reniassance. A branch of humanism. Like thier italian counterparts the christian humanists closely studied classical texts however they also sought to give it a specifically christian content. Christian humanists like Erasmus were ...

Humanism the scholarly interest in the study of classical texts, values and styles of Greece and Rome. Humanism contributed to the promotion of a liberal arts education based on the study of the classics, rhetoric, and history Christian Humanism Northern European Reniassance. A branch of humanism. Like thier italian counterparts the christian humanists closely studied classical texts however they also sought to give it a specifically christian content. Christian humanists like Erasmus were ...

Joan of Arc Deeply religious girl. Came to Charles VII and claimed to have heard the voices of saints ordering her to save Orleans. Fought in the Hundred Years War and helped the French. Captured by the English. Burned as a heretic. Wars of the Roses English aristocratic families (with their armies) fighting other families for control. Lancaster vs York. Henry Tudor wins (Henry VII). Tudor dynasty begins in England. Holy Roman Empire Large, powerful kingdom with territory throughout central...

Commercial Revolution the expansion of the trade and buisness that transformed European economies during the 16th and 17th centuries. proto-industrialization Preliminary shift away from agricultural economy in Europe; workers become full- or part-time producers of textile and metal products, working at home but in a capitalist system in which materials, work orders, and ultimate sales depended on urban merchants; prelude to Industrial Revolution. cottage industry This was the way form of w...

Commercial Revolution the expansion of the trade and buisness that transformed European economies during the 16th and 17th centuries. proto-industrialization Preliminary shift away from agricultural economy in Europe; workers become full- or part-time producers of textile and metal products, working at home but in a capitalist system in which materials, work orders, and ultimate sales depended on urban merchants; prelude to Industrial Revolution. cottage industry This was the way form of w...

Commercial Revolution the expansion of the trade and buisness that transformed European economies during the 16th and 17th centuries. proto-industrialization Preliminary shift away from agricultural economy in Europe; workers become full- or part-time producers of textile and metal products, working at home but in a capitalist system in which materials, work orders, and ultimate sales depended on urban merchants; prelude to Industrial Revolution. cottage industry This was the way form of w...

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