THE RENAISSANCE
BEGINS IN ITALY
By Brice and Meghan
Renaissance is a French word meaning rebirth.
Took many ideas from the east. They also took
ideas about philosophy science geography and
technology. The wealthy merchants and banking
families soon took over as the government leaders
of the city-states. For years the city-states had
competed with one another for control of trade in
the Mediterranean. Now they compete to become
known as Europe’s greatest center of learning.
Wealthy merchants and bankers and various citystates became patrons or supporters of the arts.
They paid artists to create art. The family of
Florence much of their wealth to artists and thinkers
to help their careers. They rejected old ways and
started to explore new ideas. Europeans entered an
age of thought learning art and science.
LEARNING ABOUT THE WORLD
≈ Italian patrons supported scholars that believed in the importance
of the individual.
≈ Focused on God and religion.
≈They felt that a person’s life should be judged by the things he/she
did not by religion.
≈ First appeared in literature.
≈ Borrowed from Greek & Roman classics that were written much
earlier.
≈ They wrote their own language.
ANNIE & ANNA
Changes in Art
 In the middle ages artists used only
religious subjects, and their works looked
formal and stiff.
 People in Renaissance paintings and
sculptures looked like real human beings,
and their faces showed feelings. Even the
background in these paintings looked
real, because Renaissance painters used
perspective.
 Groups of artists called guilds, controlled
where and for who artist could work for who
artist could work, and artist couldn’t choose
their subject.
 As a result, artist could choose for who they
would work for and many were well paid.
 Leonardo da Vinci was the greatest genius of the
Renaissance.
 He lived from 1452 to 1519 but his
accomplishments could have failed a dozen
lifetime
Leonardo
 Leonardo was a lot of things, he was a scientist,
engineer, inventor, a philosopher, and a writer as
well as an artist.
 Leonardo filled notebook after notebook with
his ideas and drawings.
 Renaissance artist Michelangelo also showed
skill in many fields.
Michelangelo
The way the first movable type and printing press were brought/invented in Europe.
THE SPREAD OF
IDEAS
Ideas spread through Europe with a German invention called the block
printing press.
About 1450 Johannes Gutenburg became the first European to print with
movable type.
His printing press uses small pieces of lettering with numbers and letters.
In 1455 Gutenburg printed a 1200 page Bible using his movable type
printing press.
After that, printing presses began to appear all over in Europe. Many of their
books appeared to be cheaper because they were being mass-produced.
Renaissance ideas spread into Spain, France, and England bringing some of the
greatest writing of all time.
English literature flourished under the rule of Queen Elizabeth I who loved poetry
and drama.
The greatest writer of the England Golden Age (and possibly all time) was/is
William Shakespeare.
Shakespeare’s plays played in theaters where all kinds of people attended.
Some of them even were made into movies.
This is a picture of William Shakespeare’s famous
play; Romeo and Juliet.
This is a picture of William
Shakespeare.
Hi
By valerie and gavin
REVOLUTION IN SCIENCE
I n the early 1600s
In the early 1600s Galileo Galili, an italian
scientist, proved Copernicus’s theory. Galieo
had heard about an instrument that could
make faraway objects seem close (telescope).
He set out to make such an insterument. With
the help of his telescope,he showed that the
Earth did indeed revolve around the Sun.
The Religious leaders
 The work Galileo did upset the leaders. The
religious leaders felt that Galileo’s ideas went
against the church teachings ,they tried to
say that he was wrong, he eventually gave in.
The legand says that as he lay dying Galileo
said “And yet it does move around the sun.”
The work of Copernicus and Galileo
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The work of Copernicus and Galileo intered an
Engilshed mathematicran named Iscac
Newton. In1687 Newton wrote a book
explaining a force called gravity. The same force
Newton said, keeps the planet circling, the sun.
Iscac Newton followed a scientific method. It
requires tests observing and experimenting.
Scientists stills work this way today.
CREDITS?……CREDITS!
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Valerie
writer and helped pick
the pictures!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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stuff
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gavin monroe
other
By Nathan/Alyssa
NEW MONARCHIES
The English
 In 1485 Henry Tudor defeated Richard the
third at the battle of Bosworth and was
crowned King Henry Seventh. In order to gain
a stronger hold on the crown and unit the
warring noble he married Richard the thirds
niece. Next he started seizing the Nobles
private armies. Henry died in 1509.
The French
 In 1461 Lois the sixth was crowned king of
France (At the time it was in a state of
disarray).The nobles at the time were selfish and
took care of their needs first before the needs of
the French. First Louis instead of giving more
power to the French nobles ,he crushed their
power and started to favor the merchants of the
rapidly growing towns and cities. When Louis
died in 1483 France was in a state of peace.
The Spanish
 For a long time the Christian kings had tried to
drive the Moors or east African Muslims out of
Spain. In the 1400 the ruler of Aragon king
Ferdinand and Queen Isabella made a great
effort to drive these moors from Spain. In 1469
Ferdinand and Isabella married. They made a
Reconquista or reconquest. By the end 1492 they
drove most Moors out of spain and also 200,000
Jews. By 1492 Ferdinand and Isabella had united
spain under one religion and one government.
The country’s flags
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Rich and poor
differences
LIFE IN
EUROPE
The Early 1500’s
 Most people would live in
small villages and then
again people lived in the big
cities too.
 The poor would live in small
huts made of wood and
straw for the roof.
 Tenant farmers were
usually the ones to live in
huts.
 The nobles (rich) would live
in the giant castles and
palaces.
 They were the ones that
got whatever they wanted.
 They would pay people to do
things for them(servants).
 The poor lived in the
small villages and the
nobles lived in the
cities.
A WEAKENED CHURCH
 In the year of 1513 Pope Leo X spent money,
raised by the church, on himself and art.
 Pope Leo X wanted to rebuild St. Peter’s Church
in Rome. To get money for his church, he sold
indulgences to the people, because he told
people that they would be forgiven for their sins
if they paid.
 Created new indulgences that promised
forgiveness for sins that were to be
committed in the future.
 Replaced money by selling positions in the
church to who paid the most.
 He disagreed with Pope Leo X on the act
toward indulgences.
 Martin was surprised forgiveness was bought
by money.
 Martin decided to challenge the selling of
indulgences.
 This is a religious court whose job was to find
and punish nonbelievers.
 The consequences would be being sent to
prison, tortured, or burned alive.
 Gregory IX set up the first inquisition in the
1230s.
The reformation!!!!!!!!!!!!
BY. BRANDYNE AND CHASE
 At noon on October 31 , 1517 , Luther nailed his 95 theses
to the castle church door in Wittenberg………….. a church
court quickly put Luther on trial and convicted him of
heresy. Charles the 5th also put Luther on trial and he
explained he wasn’t trying to hurt the church just solve
problems.........
At the same time Luther refused to
deny or change any of his ideas. Luther
was told ,therefore, that he was no
longer a member of the church.
Charles the 5th declared Luther an
outlaw. No one in the empire was to
help Luther. However Fredrick the wise
a German prince, ignored the
emperor’s order and gave Luther a
place to live.
This is a picture of
Martin Luther….. He
formed his own church
called the Lutheran
Church Germans later
followed Luther..
By: Anna Sereg
Lukas Meyer
Logan Earley
EUROPEANS EXPLORE THE GLOBE
The Fall of Constantinople
 In the early 1400’s,Venice was the leader in
European trade with the East.
 A chain of Venetian trading posts reached from the
eastern Mediterranean to the Black Sea.
 The routes beyond the Black sea were controlled by
Muslim traders, who took share of the profits.
 A threat to this trade arrangement arose when the
Ottoman trucks began pushing west.
 The capture of Constantinople by the Muslim
Ottomans shocked Europeans, but they did not
really feel sorry for Venice.
EUROPEANS LOOK TOWARD THE
ATLANTIC
•Perhaps some world of the Viking explorations across the Atlantic had
reached Spain and Portugal.
•That might explain why many people began to think that a huge piece of
land was in the ocean to the West.
•Many Europeans also now believed that a sea route to Asia could be found
by crossing the Atlantic.
•Ships of the early 1400s were not strong enough to make a long ocean
voyage.
•At the time, European sailors became better navigators.
Portugal & Spain lead the way
They wanted to share trade with Asia because they thought it would bring
them wealth.
 Prince Henry the navigator, 1419 Henry began a school for navigators.
 He brought together the best mapmakers, scientists, and ship designers
from many lands.
 Put their ideas into use by paying for their voyages.
 Henry died in 1460, but the continued the explorations along Africa's
Atlantic Coast.
∞ Christopher Columbus ∞
∞ Bartholomew Dias ∞
∞ Met the king of Portugal.
∞ Columbus got rejected by the king.
∞ He thought that his ship couldn’t sail
West across the Atlantic.
∞ He went to Queen Isabella & Prince
Ferdinand of Spain.
∞ Vasco Da Gama ∞
∞ He promised them great wealth, new
lands, and would bring them Catholic
religion to Asia.
∞ On August 3, 1492 Columbus set sail with
three ships, also on October 12, 1492 he
landed on a small island in the Caribbean
Sea.
∞ He name the island San Salvador
( Holy savior)
 Portugal and Spain Lead the Way ;)
*Ferdinand Magellan*
$ In 1519 five ships led by Magellan left Spain.
•Magellan sailed across the Atlantic, around the tip of
South America & into the Pacific Ocean.
$ Then onto Asia
* Magellan was killed in a battle in the Philippines, but
his sailors completed the trip around the world.
* His journey around the world showed three important
points.
#1 proved that a ship could reach Asia by sailing West
#2 proved that there was a water route around the
world.
#3 It gave geographers a new way to calculate the size
of the world!!
English
Exploratio
n By
Nathan
/Alyssa
King Henry the Seventh
King henry in 1497paid for the voyage of john Cabot a young sailor .This voyage
lasted till 1498.In that time John had claimed north America for England .His son
henry the Eighth concentrated on reliogon instead of exploration .Under his rule
england became a protestant country.
Queen Elizabeth the First
The
End!