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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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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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The Reformation in Europe

Time Line 1455 Johannes Gutenberg publishes the Vulgate Bible, the fi rst book in Europe printed with ...

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Causes of the Reformation

Causes of the Reformation The rise of Protestantism had multiple causes. They included a growing realization that the Church was not as powerful as it had claimed, a rise in secular political power, and the perfection of the printing process stimulating a rise in ...

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Martin Luther and the Reformation

Martin Luther Martin Luther was born in 1483 in the German state of Saxony. He became a theological scholar and a professor of scripture at Wittenberg University. A devout Catholic, Luther was outraged by the notion that salvation could be bought and sold. His ...

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