European History
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- When did the Renaissance take place, and why was it significant?
- 14th-15th centuries, after the Black Death; was a period of significant political, economic, artistic, and intellectual change.
- When did Machiavelli live, and what were his occupations?
- 1469-1527, diplomat and politician
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When forced to give up politics and exiled, what did Machiavelli do, and when did he do it?
What opinion is conveyed? -
Wrote books, including "The Prince" in 1513.
Advises basing decisions on common sense, not moral principles; "Better to be feared than loved" -
Where did Petrarch grow up? What did he eventually think of the leaders there?
What were his two beliefs contradicting the church?
What did he write? -
Leaders of Avignon= licentious,
Invented and practiced EMPIRICISM and HUMANISM.
-Africa, an epic -
Da Vinci was a great Italian Renaissance Artist.
What did he help shift? - A realistic portrayal of the human figure to an idealized form.
- Humanism was influenced by who, and what did it deemphasize?
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-Roman and Greek historians
-Divine intervention.
*Changed the writing of history, divided the ages -
Michaelangelo defined what?
What was he influenced by, and what did he sculpt?
-What was his nickname? -
The "High Renaissance"
Neoplatonism, The David.
-Il Divino/The Divine One -
What was Raphael accredited with?
What did he try to create in his paintings? -
Many Madonnas,
Tried to create a human beauty that surpassed the norm -
What was the De' Medici family responsible for?
When were they relegated?
Who did they kick out of power? -
Florence's regaining in preeminence in banking 15th century.
1494, expulsion by the French
Machiavelli -
Gutenberg developed_.
It culminated around_. -
Printing
1445-50. -
When did the War of the Roses break out?
Who was it between, who won? -
1450's
Houses of Lancaster and York
Henry Tudor of York defeats Richard III -
The Hundred Years War took place when?
What did it introduce?
What did it define? -
1337- 1453
-Introduced new war tactics
-Defined French/English boundaries - Feudalism:
- A political/economic system in which a king or queen shared power with the nobility
- What did King William do in 1066?
- Altered the system so everyone worked below him
- Humanism:
- The idea that everyone searches for meaning in life; which is found through education.