Ap Euro - Renaissance
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jennanoelle19 on January 25, 2010
Description:
part 1 - the renaissance review
Classes:
Was's AP European History, Was's History, Pre-IB 9 World History, Was's Euro History, OSHS IB
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Jacob Burkhardt | thought the renaissance was the birth of the modern world and the "breaking away from medieval ages" |
| Individualism | "The perfecting of an individual" |
| Secularism | Breaking away from Church traditional values |
| Universal Person | a well rounded personality |
| Hanseatic League | Eighty Northern European cities created trading monopoly that expanded northern economies |
| Flanders | italian ships expanded trade throughout mediterranean as far as england and netherlands (ventian flanders fleet) |
| House of Medici | florence emerged as a preeminent banking center because of the medici family in 1494 |
| Florence, Italy | Birthplace of the modern world |
| Peasantry | made up population of the third estate |
| dowry | arranged marriages to raise (or lower) social status |
| cosimo de medici and lorenzo de medici | successfully controlled oligarchy in republic of florence when it was center of cultural renaissance |
| Sforza family | ruled milan, a highly centralized territorial state as Francesco Sforza the last visconti ruler |
| Papal States | central italy, political control of the popes, papal residence in avignon and great schism |
| Venice | governed by small oligarchy, enormous revenue, international power |
| Naples | Southern Italy and Sicily, backwards monarchy |
| 1453 | fall of constantinople, ALL THINGS CHANGED |
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