Renaissance Powerpoint

Renaissance Powerpoint

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  Renaissance: Beginnings Mongolsreopen Silk Road Marco Polo visits China, returns to Europe, writes a book Causes people to want to go there and get Chinese goods Positives of Black Death No damage to farmland, goods, metals People are happy to be alive and spend money to erase memories of the plague Ottoman Turks conquer Byzantine Empire Scholars flee to Italy with ancient texts of the Greeks and Romans
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  Renaissance: Italy Majortrading cities: Milan, Florence, Genoa, Venice Florence wealthy from wool and banking Medici family were bankers with political power Hired artists and architects to make Florence great
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  Renaissance: People Focuson humans and their abilities and actions (humanism) Machiavelli wrote The Prince Said rulers should be mean instead of nice
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  Renaissance: Michelangelo wrotepoetry, carved sculptures, painted ceiling of the Sistine Chapel
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  Renaissance: Leonardo daVinci Sculptor, architect, town planner, inventor, engineer, mapmaker, painted Mona Lisa
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  Renaissance: Math/Science Squareroot symbol, plus sign, minus sign Earth moves around sun
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  Renaissance: Across EuropePeople came to Italy to learn and spread ideas across Europe Northern Europe focused more on history of Christianity and less on Greeks and Romans Northern European artwork looked more real with more scenes from nature than Italian artwork
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  Renaissance: Gutenberg JohanGutenberg invents printing press with moveable type. Learning spreads faster than ever before