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Intro to the Renaissance
Mr. Mizell: Humanities
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Copy Down Vocabulary (2.1)• Renaissance – rebirth in art,
writing, architecture, and culture• Individualism – being independent
and having freedom to make choices• Secularism – concerned with
worldly rather than spiritual matters• Realism – showing life how it
actually is• Humanism – focusing on human
potential and achievement
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Essential Question: What is the Renaissance
and why did it begin?
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What was the Renaissance?
• Renaissance means “rebirth”• There was a rebirth in Greek and
Roman culture, art, and architecture throughout Europe.
• More Individualism, Secularism, Humanism
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Why did it begin?
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Cause 1 - Fall of Constantinople• 1453 – the city of Constantinople is
taken over by the Ottomans• Ends the Byzantine Empire (Roman)
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Scholars Flee to Italy• After the fall of Constantinople,
the Byzantine scholars fled to Italy–They brought the Greek and Roman
ideas, art, and writing with them
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New Ideas, Art, and Writing
• These Greek/Roman (Classical) ideas lay the foundation for the Renaissance
• Gradually, people will begin to apply these ideas and art to their own culture
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Cause 2 - Trade• Trade from Asia moves through
the Middle East and up into Italy• Italian cities such as Florence
become the center of trade
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Ideas move with Trade
• New ways of thinking on religion, people, and art travel with trade
• Trade means greater diversity and individualism in those Italian cities.
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Trade Creates Wealth• Trade creates a new wealthy class of
people known as merchants (no longer just about nobles with lots of land)
• Some merchants will become patrons of artists (supporting them financially)
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Italy’s trade carried the Renaissance ideas to the rest of
Europe
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Cause 3 – Black Death
• A disease that begins in Asia and travels through trade routes/people into Europe
• Transmitted by fleas from rats
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Many Die• Bubonic Plague kills between
30% - 60% of all Europeans• Chaos happens as people lose
faith
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Changes Society• More jobs are available at
higher wages because so many died–Peasants can leave manors to get
jobs• People lose faith in the Church
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The Black Death
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZy6XilXDZQ
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qK4X6bqy3o&feature=related
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Directions• Work on the Causes of
Renaissance and Black Death sheet silently
• Raise your hand if you have questions or need help