euro test 10/24/12 small stuff
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21 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 el greco | painter of mannerism |
| gian lorenzo bernini | creates st peter's basilica at the vatican... best portrayal of baroque art |
| gentileschi | painter of baroque, draws judith beheading holofernes |
| nicholas poussin | french classicist painter, used scenes from mythology |
| rembrandt van rijn | dutch realist, drew lots of religious scenes with lack of expression |
| lope de vega | best playwright of spain |
| elizabethan era | prominent era of drama |
| thomas hobbes | believed in absolutism in a state. humans guided by animalistic instincts, not by reason... subjects can not rebel... or they will be suppressed... writes leviathan |
| john locke | believed that people have rights that must be protected by government... if government can't protect them, people have right to rebel... two treatises of government |
| jean bodin | believed that sovereign meant one with authority to make laws, tax, control the administration, determine foreign policy, and administer judtice |
| jacques bousset | believed in divine right by kings and their "unquestionable" authority |
| dias | portuguese, established forts at africa for gold at the gold coast... traveled around africa |
| da gama | portuguese, went around africa to east africa... couldnt find spices but christianized peoples |
| albuquerque | admiral who tries cutting off spice trade to the muslims (who dominated spice trade at the time). leads massacre in malacca and gains control |
| cabot | venetian (who sailed for england) and explored americas |
| cabral | portuguese who explored S America |
| vespucci | italian writer who wrote about new world |
| balboa | spanish explorer who explored towards pacific |
| magellan | spanish, first to circumnavigate |
| cortes | spanish, conquered mexico and christianized aztecs |
| pizarro | conquers incans |
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