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| What year does the shift to the Renaissance begin? |
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| What does Renaissance mean? |
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| What was this time a rebirth from? |
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| What were four major themes of the Renaissance? |
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- Recovery from the Middle Ages
- Regression of religion in every day life
- Human reason (questioned and there was a new focus on the individual)
- Urban society (development of small cities)
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| Three ways in which Literacy was transformed. |
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- It became understood that knowledge = power (the importance of power).
- Vernacular language
- Printing press
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| What was the vernacular language? |
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| Common language in a region |
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| What were four themes of humanism? |
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- Realism (focus on reality)
- Individual (ordinary existence)
- Religion (not as powerful)
- Classical Rome + Greece (nostalgic attachment)
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| Three Renaissance artists |
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- Leonardo Da Vinci
- Michelangelo
- Raphael
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| Three major themes of Ren. art |
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- Realism
- Very detailed (appeared 3-D)
- Influenced by Greek and Roman history
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| What was at the core of humanist education? |
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| A type of painting done on fresh, wet plaster with water-based paints. |
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| Did Machiavelli believe it is better to be feared or loved? |
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| What famous analogy did Machiavelli make? |
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| A prince must be a fox to recognize the traps, but at the same time a lion to frighten off wolves |
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| What family dominated Florence, Italy in the Renaissance? |
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