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A series of religious wars initiated, supported, and sometimes directed by the Latin church in the medieval period. Some of the crusades were intended to recover Jerusalem and its surrounding area from Islamic rule.
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The black death was a deadly disease spread by fleas that had fed on rats which boarded a ship heading to Europe where the outbreak started. Symptoms of the deadly disease included swellings in certain areas, purple and black spots on arms and legs, fever, headache, and muscle weakness.
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Classical Roman and Greek art and architecture informed by humanism, led by Brunelleschi whose works in architecture and the discovery of linear perspective informed the era, as well as the pioneering work of Donatello in sculpture and Masaccio in painting.
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The very first Great Italian painter Tommaso di Ser Giovanni di Simone better known as Masaccio was born. Masaccio developed a fully naturalistic and dramatic style of painting which had led to one of his more famously known artworks he painted with Masolino, The Fresco Cycle located at Brancacci Chapel in Florence
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Indulgences were pardons issues (forgiveness) by the pope that people could buy to reduce a souls time in Purgatory. Pope Leo X needed money to build St. Peter's Basilica so he sold indulgences.
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Indulgences were pardons issued by the pope that people could buy to reduce a souls time in Purgatory. Pope Leo X needed money to build St. Peter's Basilica so he sold indulgences.
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A religious movement in the 1500's that split the Christian church in Western Europe and led to the establishment of a number of new churches.
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The emergence of modern science during the early modern period, when developments in mathematics, physics, astronomy, biology, human anatomy, and chemistry transformed views of society and nature.