The European World
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The Renaissance (13001500’s)
- French word meaning
‘rebirth’
- began in Italy
- brought order and
unity in Europe
- era of creativity and
change
(art, literature,
science, philosophy,
economics, political
science)
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The ‘Golden Age’
- Renaissance art
explored the physical
world
- artistic subjects were
heroic
- physical features
were more realistic
*core philosophy of
period is called
humanism
Renaissance Man
-Leonardo da Vinci
-painter, sculptor,
architect, musician,
scientist, engineer
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Northern
Renaissance
William
Shakespeare
- English playwright
and poet
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The Printing Press
(1455)
- Johann Gutenberg
- produced a Bible made
on a printing press
The Reformation (1517)
- Martin Luther
- a German monk
- followers called
themselves Protestants
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Rise of Nations
- nation-states of Europe develop
- government by local nobles and the Church
decline
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Portugal Takes to the
Seas
- Prince Henry the
Navigator
- developed the
caravel- a ship that
could sail against the
wind/and with it.
-established a
mariners’ school