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Renaissance means rebirth of ancient Greek and Roman art, literature, and philosophy. It began in the 1300s, during the late Middle Ages. It ended during the 1500s, when the modern era began.
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Many European countries wanted Italian cities wealth, specifically France
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Donato di Niccolò di Betto Bardi, better known as Donatello, was an early Renaissance sculptor from Florence.
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Humanism based on the study of the classics, studied grammar, rhetoric, poetry, moral philosophy, and history. brought back the use of Roman Latin.
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Leonardo da Vinci was a leading artist and intellectual of the Italian Renaissance who's known for his enduring works "The Last Supper" and "Mona Lisa." He was also an inventor and maybe had the first invention of a modern tank.
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Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni was an Italian sculptor, painter, architect, and poet of the High Renaissance who exerted an unparalleled influence on the development of Western art.
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Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino, known as Raphael, was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance. His work is admired for its clarity of form, ease of composition, and visual achievement of the Neoplatonic ideal of human grandeur.
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The name given to the religious reform movement that split the W. Church in to Catholics and Protestants. Martin Luther began Reformation in early 1500s which lead to more religious change.
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Martin was a German professor of theology, composer, priest, monk and a seminal figure in the Protestant Reformation. Luther came to reject several teachings and practices of the Roman Catholic Church.
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The Ninety-five Theses or Disputation on the Power of Indulgences are a list of propositions for an academic disputation written in 1517 by Martin Luther.
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Pope Leo X excommunicated Luther. Three months later, Luther was called to defend his beliefs before Holy Roman Emperor Charles V at the Diet of Worms, where he was famously defiant.
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The Edict of Worms was a decree issued on 25 May 1521 by Emperor Charles V, declaring. For this reason we forbid anyone from this time forward to dare, either by words or by deeds, to receive, defend, sustain, or favour the said Martin Luther.
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John Calvin was an influential French theologian, pastor and reformer during the Protestant Reformation. 1536 published Institutes of the Christian Religion.
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Was the period of Catholic resurgence initiated in response to the Protestant Reformation, beginning with the Council of Trent.Contained Ecclesiastical or structural reconfiguration, Religious orders, Spiritual movements, Political dimensions.
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Peace of Augsburg 1555, temporary settlement within the Holy Roman Empire of the religious conflict arising from the Reformation. Each prince was to determine whether Lutheranism or Roman Catholicism was to prevail in his lands
