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Page 1: The Renaissance The Bridge Between the Middle Ages and the Modern Era.

The Renaissance

The Bridge Between the Middle Ages and the Modern Era

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The Renaissance• Renaissance means= REBIRTH• The REBIRTH of Europe• Marked by a time period of great

creativity and learning. • Begins in Italy because:

1. Great interest in Ancient Rome 2. Italian city-states were wealthy and had the money to spend from trading.

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Humanism• In the early 1300’s, Italians began to

study Greek and Roman writers.

• Leads people to study: Art

• Artists created great works of art.

• Patrons- gave artists money to work.

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Individuals Take Charge

• People started believing in the ability of humans to do great things.

• As a result, individuals develop confidence, and people start to work to create better cities and countries.

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Renaissance Ideas in Action• Johann Gutenberg -creates the

Printing Press, which increases the production of books.

• As a result, ideas of the Renaissance are spread throughout Europe.

• Books are written in vernacular, an everyday language that all people could understand.

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Changes in Renaissance Society

• Farmers leave manors and move to cities.

• Increases the importance of the nuclear family: MOTHER, FATHER, CHILDREN.

• A middle class of merchants and craft workers forms.

• Women are taught to read and write.

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Examples of People Who Impacted the

Renaissance

Florence, Italy was the center of the Renaissance

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Leonardo Da Vinci

The Mona Lisa

A True Renaissance ManDa Vinci was an Italian artist,

painter, musician, scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor and writer!

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Vesalius• Vesalius was an

anatomist, physician and author of one of the most influential books on human anatomy.

• He studied the internal body, by cutting open dead people.

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Christopher Columbus

• Christopher Columbus was a navigator, colonizer and explorer.

• Columbus molded the future of European colonization and encouraged European exploration of foreign lands for centuries to come.


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