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| Marco Polo | traveler and trader remarcable man from Venice |
| Renaissance | the period of "rebirth" and creativitity that followed Europe's Middle Ages |
| humanism | the study of history,literature,public speaking,and art to led to a new way of thinking in Europe in the late 1300s |
| Dante Alighieri | a politician and poet.Dante wrote in Italian the people language |
| Nicolo Machiavelli | he also was a politician.In 1513 wrote a short book called the Prince |
| Michelangelo | Great Italian master a famous painting that covers the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican |
| Lenardo da Vinci | The true genius of the Renaissance.Both nature and technology fascinated Leonardo |
| Petrarch | The Renaissance scholar warned about ignoring history |
| Johann Gutenberg | In the mid-1400s develop a printing press that used movable type |
| Christian humanism | was a blend of humanist and religious ideas |
| Desiderious Erasmus | was the most important voice for reform |
| Albrecht Durer | studied anatomy so that he could paint people more realistically |
| Michael de Cervantes | he wrote Don Quixote in the book Cervantes poked fun at the romantic tales of the Middle Ages |
| William Shakespeare | the greatest writer in the English language |
| Reformation | a reform movement against the Roman Chatolic Church that began in 1517;it resulted in the creation of Protestant churches |
| Martin Luther | On October 31,1517 a priest added his voice to the call for reform |
| Protestants | a Christian who protested against the Roman Catholic Church |
| Johnn Calvin | One of Calvin's main teachings was predestination |
| Catholic Reformation | the effort of the late 1500s and 1600s to reform the Catholic Church from within;also called the Counter-Reformation |
| Jesuits | members of Catholic religious order created to serve the pope and the church |
| federalism | the sharing of power between local governments and a strong central government |
