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Petrarch was an Italian scholar and poet in Renaissance Italy. He is known for discovering and translating Greek and Roman. Petrarch was a Christian and believed that people could be religious and still be a humanist.
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The disease is estimated to have killed 75-200 million people in Europe and it was very infectious. The disease had puss and blood oozing from black sores in peoples arm pits or groins, there was lots of internal bleeding and the smell of a persons breath and excrements was horrid. The plague created social, economic and religious upheavals that had effects on European history.
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Petrarch was born in 1304 and died in 1374. He was named the father of Humanism.
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The Medici Family becomes the head of the city state of Florence. With there rickest supported many famous renaissance sculptors, painters and architects.
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Johannes Gutenberg invents the printing press. The printing press was an invention that changed the world. The first European book ever printed was the Guttenberg bible and it helped spread new renaissance ideas.
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The Ottoman Empire captured the city of Constantinople, bringing an end to the Byzantine Empire.
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The Gutenberg bible was printed in Mainz and was the first book ever written with the moveable type.
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Lorenzo de Medici became the ruler of Florence. He was a Italian statesmen who was the most powerful and enthusiastic person of the renaissance. He was named Lorenzo the Magnificent and was the greatest of the Medicis.
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Botticelli completed the painting The Birth of Venus. The painting shows the birth of the goddess Venus arriving on a shore after her birth full grown.
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Lorenzo de Medici died on April 8, 1492.
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Leonardo Da Vinci painted the mural The Last Supper. The Last Supper is one of the most recognized paintings in history.
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Michelangelo began work on the sculpture of David. David is a renaissance sculpture created by Michelangelo. It is a 17 foot tall statue.
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Leonardo Da Vinci paint the Mona Lisa it is the best known work of art in the word and the most valuable painting in the world.
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Michelangelo begins work on the sistine Chapel. Michelangelo began painting the whole ceiling of the sistine chapel and It took him 5 years to finish. The sistine chapel is the residence of the pope in Vatican City.
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Martin Luther publishes his "95 theses", starting the Protestant Reformation. The 95 Theses is a list of questions and propositions for debate and Martin Luther nailed a copy of this to the door of the Wittenberg Castle Church.
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Michelangelo completes the painting "The Last Judgement". The painting covers the whole alter wall of the sistine Chapel.
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Nicholas Copernicus proposes that the earth rotates around the sun. This changed Europe's concept of the universe and was foundation for modern astronomy.
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When he died of natural causes, his beliefs had formed the basis for the Protestant Reformation.
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