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Florence, Italy came under the rule of the Medici family.They aided the Renaissance as patrons by supporting the arts.They would have their portraits painted or donated art to the city.
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Johann Gutenberg invented the printing press in 1440, this invention helped to spread learning in many ways.The first book ever printed was a complete bible.
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Columbus was an Italian explorer who wanted to find a direct route from west of Europe to Asia.he never did but he had refused to say that he did not. He really found the Bahamas on San Salvador Island, But he is still given credit for finding the Americas because of how close it is to the Bahamas. Ferdinand the Second and Isabella the First of Spain helped to fund his voyage because they wanted some of the goods from Asia.
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Michelangelo was a painter,sculpture,architect and a poet,his works of art are forceful and show heroic grandeur and power.He was inspired to do this because of Donatello's (another artist during the Renaissance) version of David.It's made of Carrara Marble and with a dimension of 517cm.
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He was a sculpture,painter,inventor,and scientist, he was interested in how muscles move.He was a famous humanist.It is an oil painting with a polar wooden panel with a picture of an woman and in the background is some kind of nature setting.
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This book was published after his death.It describes the different methods that a prince or ruler can gain and keep power.
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LUther wrote that indulgences(which were sold and and basically a way to assure that you went to heaven)were never mentioned in the Bible.When the pope found out he told Luther to take it back.Luther was later excommunicated.
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He had took the movement of Martin Luther and had brought it to order.His statements can be summarized with saying that people are born sinful, God chooses to save people not based on their merit,Jesus died for specific people,all that are predestined to be saved will be, also perseverance of the Saints.
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The Jesuits founded and staffed schools all across Europe, sent out Catholic missionaries, and tried to stop the spread of Protestantism.Pope Paul the Third approved of the Jesuits.
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This book was about the heliocentric theory.This caused new ideas about the earth and the universe.
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Was a poet that wrote plays and sonnets over humans and their emotions and over the way that they ineract
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He discovered that the density of liquids (how much they retract and expand)reacts predictability in changes to temperature.He invented a device that allowed temperature variations to be measured.
