SS Vocab 7.8.5 Subset I
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MrKoppes on February 16, 2010
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Mr. Koppes' US History, Mr. Koppes' Medieval and Early Modern History
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Italian | English |
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 Dante Alighieri | writer who wrote The Divine Comedy in native language |
| Johann Gutenberg | German printer who was the first in Europe to print using movable type and the first to use a press (1400-1468) |
| Humanism | a system of thought that focuses on the nature, ideals, and achievements of humans |
| perspective | a method of showing a three demensional scene on a flat surface so that it looks real |
| Leonardo da Vinci | Italian painter and sculptor and engineer and scientist and architect |
| Michelangelo | Florentine sculptor and painter and architect |
| Mona Lisa | a famous painting by Leonardo da Vinci |
| Christian Humanism | the resulting combination of humanist and religious ideas |
| Desiderius Erasmus | Dutch humanist and theologian who was the leading Renaissance scholar of northern Europe |
| Albrecht Durer | a leading German painter and engraver of the Renaissance (1471-1528) |
| Miguel de Cervantes | Spanish writer best remembered for 'Don Quixote' which satirizes chivalry and influenced the development of the novel form (1547-1616) |
| William Shakespeare | English poet and dramatist considered one of the greatest English writers (1564-1616) |
| printing press | A press that incorporated moving text, and made the process of book making faster and cheaper. This process was invented by Johan Guttenberg |
| cartography | The art and science of mapmaking |
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