new enthusiasm
for classical literature, learning, and art which sprang up in Italy towards
the close of the Middle Ages, and which during the course of the fifteenth
and sixteenth centuries gave a new culture to Europe.
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Renaissance was essentially an intellectual movement
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secular, inquiring, self-reliant spirit which characterized the life and culture of classical antiquity
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Closed questions have the following characteristics: They give you facts. They are easy to answer. They are quick to answer. They keep control of the conversation with the questione
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As opening questions in a conversation,
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For testing their understanding
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Pope Urban II orders first Crusade - Nov 27, 1095 - HISTORY.com - 5 views
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On November 27, 1095, Pope Urban II makes perhaps the most influential speech of the Middle Ages, giving rise to the Crusades by calling all Christians in Europe to war against Muslims in order to reclaim the Holy Land, with a cry of "Deus vult!" or "God wills it!"
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By the end of the 11th century, the Holy Land—the area now commonly referred to as the Middle East—had become a point of conflict for European Christians. Since the 6th century, Christians frequently made pilgrimages to the birthplace of their religion, but when the Seljuk Turks took control of Jerusalem, Christians were barred from the Holy City. When the Turks then threatened to invade the Byzantine Empire and take Constantinople, Byzantine Emperor Alexius I made a special appeal to Urban for help. This was not the first appeal of its kind, but it came at an important time for Urban. Wanting to reinforce the power of the papacy, Urban seized the opportunity to unite Christian Europe under him as he fought to take back the Holy Land from the Turks.
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Urban delivered a rousing speech summoning rich and poor alike to stop their in-fighting and embark on a righteous war to help their fellow Christians in the East and take back Jerusalem. Urban denigrated the Muslims, exaggerating stories of their anti-Christian acts, and promised absolution and remission of sins for all who died in the service of Christ.
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The Renaissance at mrdowling.com - 3 views
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About 1450
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Renaissance is a French word that means "rebirth."
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beginning of modern history.
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