Renaissance Powerpoint
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Renaissance: Beginnings• Mongols reopen 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
Renaissance: Italy
• Major trading 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
Renaissance: People
• Focus on humans and their abilities and actions (humanism)
•Machiavelli wrote The Prince
•Said rulers should be mean instead of nice
Renaissance: Michelangelo• wrote poetry, carved sculptures, painted
ceiling of the Sistine Chapel
Renaissance: Leonardo da Vinci
• Sculptor, architect, town planner, inventor, engineer, mapmaker, painted Mona Lisa
Renaissance: Math/Science
• Square root symbol, plus sign, minus sign
• Earth moves around sun
Renaissance: Across Europe
• People 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
Renaissance: Gutenberg
• Johan Gutenberg invents printing press with moveable type.– Learning spreads faster than ever before