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Roman empire was a huge empire that strechted across Italy. It fell because the people of rome were decadent and got invaded by barbarians.
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The silk road wasnt actually a road but the path that merchants travelled on while they were selling goods.
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It was a Hierarchial system where the king was on top then the higher clergy, nobles, lesser nobles, knights,lower clergy and at the bottom were serfs and peasents.
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the eastern half of the roman empire that lasted from the 4th to the 15th century (300-1400).
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An era when they stopped caring about education and their art was bad. They were all focused on religion and nothing else. It went from 4th-14thcentury (300-1300).
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THe crusades was the battle for the holy land. The Jews, Christians and Muslims fought for the holy land each thinking it belonged to them because all religions stem from there.
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Petrarch was a humanist scholar. He was born in 1304 and died in 1374.
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a time period that is close to the renaissance but is still in the middle ages.
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The Black Death was the Bubonic plague and it started at 1347 started and kept spreading through Europe. It caused black lumps to appear on the armpits and groin. THe lumps oozed pus and blood. It killed millions.
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A time when art, science, astrology and architecture were beginning to be important again. It means rebirth.
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A city that ruled itself and was ruled by arstocracy.
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Filippo was a architect. HE was the first to use pespective. HE was born in 1377 and died in 1446.
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was a very good artist during the early italian renaissance. He had a unique technique for casting bronze statues.
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Van Eyck was ana amazing oil painter . He might have invented it. He was born in 1390 and died in 1441.
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MAsaccio was the first painter to use linear and aerial perspective. He died in 1428 and was born in 1401.
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He was a french painter. HE was born in 1416 and died in 1480.
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The family made Florence the centre of the Renaissance in Italy. Medici were a banking family.
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DA Vinci was many things. The term renaissance man came from him. HE was born in 1452 and died in 1519.
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brought slight stability to the city of Florence, Venice, Milan and Naples for 40 years.
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Erasmus was a renaissance christian humanist. HE was born in 1466 and died in 1563.
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Guillaume was a royal secretary to king Francois and at times was a diplomat. HE was born in 1467 ans died in 1540.
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HE was well known for his woodcuts. HE died in 1528.
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Nicolaus was a Polish mathematics and astronomer. He died in 1543.
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He was a flemish painter. HE died in 1569.
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Michel was a french philosopher and writer. HE created the essay writing form. HE was born in 1533 and died in 1592.
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was a french mathematician who wroete books on trigonometry and geometry. He died in 1603.
