renaissance (ap Euro)
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Serf | a slave |
| peasant | poor farmer or laborer of low social rank; course, uneducated person |
| Clergy | Church leadership (lay clergy=unprofessional |
| Moors | from N. Africa. Controll spain for many years\ |
| Court Jews | Educated Jews who often became advisors to kings |
| Usury | Interest on a loan |
| Crusades | War for the holy lands from 1095-1204 |
| The Spanish Inquisition | Ferdinand and Isabella finish off moors & tortured those who werent catholic |
| Bubonic Plague | (1347-1351) Kills 1/3 of Europe (25 million) |
| The Hundred Year's War | (1337-1453) War between England and France |
| Pogroms | Mass killings of ethnic groups |
| Relic | Religious Article |
| 4 signs of a witch | 1. Poor 2.Old 3.Single 4. Woman |
| Italian Painters | Not as good at background, but focous on beauty of human body |
| Northern Painters | Not as good at people, but good at backgrounds |
| Di medici | ruling family in Florence during the Renaissance |
| Donatello | Sculpture of David |
| Leonardo | the last supper |
| Raphael | School of Athens |
| Petrarch | "The Father of Humanism" Sonnets to Laura Letters to the Ancient Dead |
| Boccacio | The Decameron |
| Castiglione | The Book of the Cortier |
| Christine de Pisan | The City of Ladies |
| Valla | The Donation of Constantine |
| Machiavelli | The Prince "The ends justify the means" "It's better to be feared than loved" |
| Erasmus | "The Prince of Humanists" Adages In Praise of Folly Greek Translation New Testament |
| Brothers of the Common life | Mix of Spiritual people who want to be able to get married |
| Treaty of Tordesilla | Splits World. Spain gets new world Portugal gets old World |
| Holy roman Empire | 1 emporor Diet consisting of . . . 7 Electors 300 Nobles/Princes/Bishops Free Cities |
| Lancaster | Red Rose |
| York | White rose |
| Dias De Gama (Portugal) | Sailed to Cape of Good Hope & India |
| Amerigo Vespuci | Discovered America is not part of asia |
| Balboa | the first European to see the American coast of the Pacific Ocean |
| Magellan | the first to circumnavigate the earth |
| Cortes | Aztecs (1519) |
| Pizaro | Inca(1532) |
| Cartier | Canada(1535) |
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