Renaissance people looked back to Greece and Rome as role models. ... Just after the fall of the Roman Empire all the knowledge of the Roman civilization was lost. ... The Feudalism and the clergy that developed after the fall of the Roman Empire stagnated the development of the culture, science, art, ect. ... According to me the Renaissance people hit the jackpot by looking back to Rome and Greece. ...

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During his rule Pepin deported the Lombards from Rome. He pillaged their right to live in Rome. ... At that time the Franks were falling back to barbarian ways like not caring about their education or religion. ... He ended up ruling most all of Western Europe and this was the first time since the fall of Rome that it had been ruled by one government. ...

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He entered Rome for the first time in January 1337. ... Accepting an invitation to go to Rome on Easter Sunday, 1341, he was given the great honor to be publicly crowned as poet and historian in the Capitol. ... Laura died in 1348 falling victim to the black plague. ...

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Neorealism was a movement developed in Italy after the fall of Mussolini and the Second World War. ... Born in Rome, Rossellini worked on several Italian films that supported the military between 1938 and 1942. He then began work on his first masterpiece, Roma Citta` Aperta, Rome Open City, in 1945. This movie showed the relationship between Catholics and Communists while the Nazi's occupied Rome. ...

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In conclusion, the Germanic clan leaders of the late 5th century A.D. took a world that was shrouded in darkness and doubt after the fall of the greatest empire the world had ever known, and turned it into a stable land of opportunity and power again. The time from the fall of Rome until the 11th century is known collectively as the "Dark Ages," but I believe that because of this system and the men who were known only as barbarians, this was a time of great change and a time where men truly showed their capacity to survive and also thrive and change the world into what we know today. ...

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Italian scholars and critics began studying the civilizations of ancient Greece and Rome. ... Italians especially, recaptured the former glory of Rome. ... Botticelli's Venus is so stunning that the viewer does not notice the unusually elongated looking neck due to the steep fall of Venus" shoulders and the queer way in which her left arm is hinged to the body. ...

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VOCABULARY Archaeology: the scientific study of ancient people and cultures principally revealed through excavation. Cromlech: a circle of megaliths. Henge: a Neolithic monument, characterized by a circular ground plan. Used for rituals and marking astronomical events. Megalith: a stone of great siz...

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Although the Renaissance was a relatively short time period, it generated change in many ways. The Renaissance began around the year 1400, at the end of the Middle Ages, which lasted from the fall of Rome in 500 to about 1350, and ended around 1700. The Middle Ages gave rise to various agricultural ...

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The fall of Constantinople in 1453 by the Turks caused a migration wave of Byzantine scholars into western Europe. ... carefully studied and drew inspiration from the ruins of Rome surrounding Italy, gaining a variety of new perspectives and ideas such as the use of symmetry in architecture or town planning. ...

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Moreover, the movement of unification tied more in Italy itself because Italy was divided, without communication network backward in economy and local rivalry prevented a common front to develop when states were as states localism with different culture, languages, political system and interest prevented any united effort against foreign rule, for example, the position of Rome was the central position of any unifying movement. ... As Fisher says "Mazzini was the Saint of Italian unification but he was doomed to failure because he could not foresee that the unification with Rome and the entire ...

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As time passed this artistic movement spread across Italy to Venice and Rome, and by the Sixteenth century the rest of Europe. ... Here Botticelli passionately tries to recapture the former glory of Rome, because the classical myths had become popular among educated laymen. ... Simply as a side note: Venus was conceived when the Titan Cronus castrated his father, the god Uranus, the severed genitals falling into the sea and fertilizing it. ...

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Over the course of his life Serra delegated several other commissions to Guercino and was known as a notable art collector in Rome. ... Samson looks towards the approaching group of Philistines, alone, and all of the soldiers seem to fall as they converge. ...

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