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The Renaissance Timeline
Time Line ... 1348-1350 Black Death (bubonic and pneumonic plagues) decimates European population
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The Renaissance Period
The Renaissance The word renaissance means “rebirth.” The 250-year period of European history beginning about 1350 is called the Renaissance because it marked the rebirth of a certain way of thinking—a return to the values of the ...
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The Black Death in Europe
The Black Death The Black Death is the name given to a severe epidemic of bubonic and pneumonic plague that spread across Europe from about 1348 to about 1350. The plague originated in the Crimea and was brought westward on trading ships. It was highly infectious ...
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Politics and the Economy in the Renaissance
Politics and the Economy In the days of the Black Death, Italy was not a unified nation. It was a collection of politically independent city-states whose people shared a common ethnic, cultural, religious, and linguistic heritage. These city-states were ruled by ...
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Michelangelo in the Renaissance
Michelangelo Born in Florence in 1475, Michelangelo Buonarroti is one of the towering figures of art. He achieved great fame in his own lifetime and forever after as a sculptor, architect, painter, and poet. During his career, Michelangelo received many important ...
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The Perfection of Printing in the Renaissance
The Perfection of Printing Woodblock printing was invented in China before A.D. 220 and remained the main method of printing on cloth and paper for centuries. However, this method was not practical for printing multiple copies of long texts. Movable type, in which ...
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Humanism in the Renaissance
Humanism The word humanism refers to a Classical course of study at European universities, many of which were founded between about A.D. 1000 and 1200. Human- ism meant the study of the seven liberal arts, “liberal” because in ancient Rome ...
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The Renaissance Period Practice Test
Review the following study guides if necessary: The Renaissance Timeline
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