World History: Medici- program 1 – Flashcards
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Manuscripts
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The item(s) that Cosimo de Medici and his friends search Europe for. Because of this search, the Renaissance begins.
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Heresy
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A word that means believing anything other than what the church preached. People could be excommunicated from the Church if found guilty of this crime.
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Brunelleschi
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An architect and engineer who built the dome of the Florence Cathedral
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Columns
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These were used as supports for the Florence Cathedral dome. Because they haven't been used in 1000 years it created a revolution in architecture.
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Arches
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These were used to make the dome, and haven't been used since the fall of Rome. Florentines who came to watch the dome's construction were surprised that he ordered these.
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Concrete
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A building material whose recipe was lost. Brunelleschi had examined the dome of the Roman Pantheon, and unfortunately couldn't use the same technique because of the absence of this material.
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Gears
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The part of pulleys that Brunelleschi altered so that the oxen could pull the 1700 pound sandstone beams 250 feet into the air and return them to the ground without changing direction.
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Bricks
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Brunelleschi personally set some of these into place on his dome because his workers were afraid the technique would fail and they would die.
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Power and Prestige
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The Medici family gained this because of Cosimo's patronage of Brunelleschi.
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Albizzi
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A banking family who resented the power of Medici and had him arrested for treason against Florence.
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Brunelleschi
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The man who was also jailed because of Cosimo's arrest.
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Bribing
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Cosimo escaped from the tower that was his prison by doing this to the guards.
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Pope
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Cosimo returned to Florence after the Albizzi family's control over Florence ended, and the Medici banks became the most important banks in Europe because they collected money for this person.
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John XXIII
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The pope previously known as Baldesari Cossa. Cosimo's patronage of Cossa paid off when Cossa became pope.
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Patronage
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Marcello Fantoni said: "[blank] is great for the production of art but totally irrational from an economic view. [blank] is a political strategy...high political competition..." (the two blanks are the same word)
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Republic
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The type of government in Florence. Florence is the only country in Europe to have this type, but it was often corrupt.
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Artists
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70% of all Renaissance [blank] lived and worked in Florence.
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Perspective
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An invention created by Brunelleschi that changed the way we see, and made a new, modern way of looking at the world.
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Donatello
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The sculptor who made the bronze statue of David, which was the first free-standing sculpture since ancient Rome.
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General Council
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This group was organized after the dome was completed. It brought people from all over the world to Florence, including scholars who knew Greek and could translate the ancient Greek texts that Cosimo and his friends had been searching for.
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Il Duomo
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The name of Brunelleschi's dome.
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Pater Patriae
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The name given to Cosimo de Medici when he died in 1464, it means 'the father of the fatherland'.
