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The king was taxing the French clergy when they weren't supposed to be taxed. The church and the French kings did not get along after that. The new pope decided to move the church's headquarters to Avignon. Martin Luther and Reformation PP
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Rich people would buy their way into the church which is simony. The church was okay with this because they wanted money. This was illegal and it was forbidden. https://www.britannica.com/topic/simony
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Humanism inspired the new arts in the renaissance. People didn't just make their life revolve just around religion. Humans started doing what they wanted and actually made life enjoyable. Artistic Movements of the Renaissance PP
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This book was written by Christine de Pizan. This book talks about women should be educated. It argues that women should be able to participate in the society. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Book_of_the_City_of_Ladies
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The Medici Family ruled over Florence, Itlay. They were very wealthy and powerful during the Renaissance. They funded artists and scientists like Leonardo da Vinci and Galileo Galilei. Source- Medici Reading & Review
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The printing press was made by Johannes Gutenberg. The printing press made it a whole lot easier to copy stuff. Luther's 95 Theses spread so quickly because of the printing press. All you do is put pressure onto an inked surface and then you have another copy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printing_press
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Leonardo da Vinci was amazing at making his paintings look so realistic. He put a lot of detail in his paintings. His most famous painting was the Mona Lisa. http://www.history.com/topics/leonardo-da-vinci
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An indulgence is a paper that will get you out of purgatory. The church would sell these to make money. People could buy indulgences for themselves and family member. They were very popular and people would spend as much money as they could on them. Martin Luther and Reformation PP
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Peasants would eat soup most of the time. The soup was just water and vegetables. They also had the option of black bread which was very low-quality bread. Meat was hardly an option for them. Source- Life During Renaissance PP
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Michelangelo was a painter, sculptor, architect, and a poet. He is actually considered one of the greatest artists of all time. He was the architect of St. Peters Basilica. He had a different style and it was a big movement in Western art. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelangelo
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Raphael was a painter and an architect. A lot of his works were frescoes in the Vatican Palace. His best-known fresco was probably The School of Athens. http://www.biography.com/people/raphael-41051
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A Renaissance man would be very talented. To be a renaissance man you had to be athletic and very smart. An example would be Leonardo because he was talented at many things like painting, sculpting, and architecture. Life During the Renaissance PP
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Merchants would compete with each other by making huge and amazing homes. They would hire great artists so they could have many paintings in these huge homes. They would buy anything that had value and very rare items. Italy Reading & Review
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The Prince was a very influential book about leadership. It was written by Niccolo Machiavelli. His idea was that as a leader it was better to be feared than loved. Machiavelli Reading & Review
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On this day Martin Luther put up the 95 Theses on the door of the Wittenberg Castle Church. These 95 Theses started a lot of debate throughout Rome and people started to question the church. A lot of the theses attack how indulgences can save you from purgatory. http://www.history.com/topics/martin-luther-and-the-95-theses
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It is an instrument that is much like a piano. When you play a key on a piano the string is hit but on a harpsichord, it is plucked. They come in many different shapes and sizes. It was used a lot in European music throughout the renaissance. Life During the Renaissance PP
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Martin Luther translated the New Testament into german. It was originally in Latin. Only people of the church could read Latin. Martin Luther changed that and translated it to German and everyone could now read the Bible. http://www.christianitytoday.com/history/issues/issue-34/bible-translation-that-rocked-world.html
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Thousands of peasants were protesting against the lords. They wanted Luther's support. Luther actually supported the lords instead. Between 50,000 and 100,000 peasants died. The peasants accomplished nothing. https://boomwriter.com/author/projects/Manage/11825
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Zacharias Jansen was the person who invented the microscope. He and his father were just doing some experiments with lenses and noticed that one greatly enlarged the object. You could easily enlarge something and see long distances because of this invention. This invention is still a very important thing in experiments today. http://www.history-of-the-microscope.org/history-of-the-microscope-who-invented-the-microscope.php
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Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare. It's a play with two people that fall in love and later die. It was and still is a very popular literary work. People would actually sometimes change the ending so that they both survive. http://www.shakespeare-online.com/playanalysis/romeoplayhistory.html
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Galileo discovered these dark spots on the sun with his telescope. He thought they may be some kind of cloud. It was a mystery for a while. The sunspots would move constantly. It was found that the sunspots can change the earths climate. http://www.asc-csa.gc.ca/eng/sciences/sunspots1.asp
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Everybody during this time thought that the earth was the center of the universe (geocentric). Galileo discovered that the sun was actually the center of the universe (heliocentric). Galileo went against the church and was put on trial for heresy. http://solar-center.stanford.edu/galileo/
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Galileo had tried to make a mechanical clock using a pendulum. Galileo's assistant Vincenzo Vivani actually made the first pendulum clock that people could rely on after Galileo's death. People now had a clock to tell them time. http://www.cs.rhul.ac.uk/~adrian/timekeeping/galileo/
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The three laws of motion were discovered by Isaac Newton. The first law is the definition of inertia. The second law talks about how something can change when it's hit by an external force. The third law is that every action on something there is an equal opposite reaction. https://www.grc.nasa.gov/www/k-12/airplane/newton.html
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Donatello was a sculpture and architecture. He had a unique gothic style.The statue of David in bronze is considered his best work. http://www.biography.com/people/donatello-21032601
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