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1300 - 1600 was called?
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Renaissance - rebirth - revival of art and learning
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Italy was the birthplace of the Renaissance what were the three advantages?
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1- Thriving cities 2- wealthy merchant class and 3- classical heritage of Greece and Rome
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Overseas trade was spurred by what?
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The Crusades
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Overseas trade led to the growth of what?
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Large city-states in Northern Italy
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Italy waswhat and the rest of Europe was mostly what?
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Urban and the rest of Europe was rural
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What class of people developed in each Italian City -state?
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A wealthy merchant class
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Merchants could not inherit what unlike nobles?
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Social Rank
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What belief became important during the Renaissanace?
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Individual achievement
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The city-sate of Flornace had what form of government?
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Republican
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During Renaissance Florence came under the rule of?
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Medici - powerful banking family . he did not seek office but influenced members of the ruling council by handing them loans. Cosimo Medici was the dictator of Florence
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Renaissance scholars wanted to return to the learning of the Greeks and Romans - name three ways.
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1- Artists and scholars drew inspiration from the ruins of rome 2- Western scholars studied Latin manuscripts and 3 - Christian scholars in Constaninople fled ro Rome with Greek manuscripts.
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The study of Classical texts led to?
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Humanism - the study of human potential and achievements
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What are the subjects that are known as himanities?
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History, literature and philosophy
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Most people remianed devout catholics but moved towards?
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Secular - wordly rather than spiritual - concerned with the here and now.
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Church leaders beautified Rome and became ?
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Patrons of the Arts
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