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The Middle Ages were between the Renaissance and the fall of the Roman Empire
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The High Middle ages were the period of time following the Dark Ages.
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During the Roman Catholic Church time era there was a great amount of power for both kings and pesants. 10% of Western Europeans lived religious lives as catholic monks, nuns and preiests.
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Medieval Artwork greatly reinforced these beliefs, the storys of the Bible, and they acted to inspire a sense of religious feeling of the mostly illiterate population of Europe.
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The Renaissance means rebirth.
It was the movement of cultural rebirth in Florence, Italy in the 1300's which ended around 1650.
The Renaissance tried to recapture some of the ancient greatness of Ancient Greece and Rome. -
1) art
2) religion(protestant)
3) science(solar system)
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Britain was undeafeted, allowing four different Barbarian tribes crossd the North Sea and settled there.
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Masaccio was born in 1401 and died in 1428. He changed painting profoundly. He carried the revolution further by using perspective. Perspective is a technique developed by Brunelleschi that gave objects the apperance of distance.
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the renaissance time period
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Donatello was an italian artist and sculptor from Florence during the Early Renaissance. He was the first sculptor to ever create a free-standing statues.
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Michelangelo was an Italian sculptor, painter, architect, poet, and engineer. One of his most famous paintings is "The David". Another is the "Pieta".
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Leonardo Da Vinci was a great artist during the Renaissance. He was the creator of the famous painting, "Mona Lisa". He also was the painter of "The Last Supper".
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Bottitcelli was an italian artist during the Early Renaissance. Some of his best works of art include the "Primavera" and "The Birth of Venus".
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Raphael was an Italian painter as well as architect during the High Renaissance. He used printmaking. His artwork is found in places such as the Vatican.
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Nicolaus Copernicus was an Italian Astronmer of the Renaissance. As well as being an astronomer he was a mathematician, physician, quadrilingual polyglot, classical scholar, translator, artist, catholic cleric, jurist, governor, military leader, diplomat, and economist.
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Galileo was an italian physicist, mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher. He invented the Telescope as well as studied the Pendulum.
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William Harvey was the discoverer of how blood circulates throughout the body.
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Gilbert studied magnetisim. He invented the magnet.
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Gabriel Fahrenheit was the inventor the of the thermometer.
