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Chapter 21 H
Term | Definition |
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Habsburg Dynasty | The family that controlled the Holy Roman Empire after the 13th century; based on Vienna, they ruled Austria until 1918. |
Principality of Kiev | The first Russian state; flourished from c.800 to 1240, when it fell to Mongols. |
Secularism | The rejection of supernatural religion as the arbiter of earthly action; emphasis on worldly and humanistic affairs. (less religious) |
Utopia | No where; a Greek term used to denote an ideal place or society |
Humanism | movement of the Renaissance that stressed individualism |
Renaissance | The social, artistic, cultural "rebirth" that arose in Europe in the 14th century |
Third Rome | A Russian myth that Moscow was ordained to succeed Rome and Constantinople as the center of true Christianity. |
Wars of the Roses | An English Civil War between noble factions over the succession of the throne in the 15th century. |
The Ren. in northern Europe differed from the that of Italy by being... | less secular |
New element in Ren.city state politics was | the concept of a secular state that existed independently of both ruler and ruled |
Titan and Van Eyck were both Ren. ... | artists |
papal/papacy | pope |
Oligarchies | a small group of wealthy aristocrats, headed by prince, huge gaps between rulers and the people. |
Individualism | wealthy wanted to separate the masses |
dogma | belief system |
Legitimacy | Royalty had the right to rule and the right to exist |
Sovereignity | States are equal to each others the estate was the authority |
Territory | the state controls the land and everything in it |
France | recovered quickly from hundred years war Charles VII created first truly Royal army Louis XI (son) |
Magna Carta (England) | great charter: contract : to strengthen parliament |
Holy Roman Empire (Germany) | no centralized government. no bureaucracy, royal army, national parliament or power to tax in his subjects. |
Renaissance art was | experimental |
Frescos | paintings done on wet plaster |
Michelangelo | created the David |
Da Vinci | Mona Lisa |
Machiavelli | long term impact on the Renaissance , wrote The Prince |