World History Unit 1
Renaissance and Reformation
Student Objectives
• 1. I can define the term Renaissance and explain why the term was used to
describe this historical period.
• 2. I can explain the causes and effects of the Renaissance and its impact upon
history then and now.
• 3. I can identify the major artistic, literary, and intellectual figures of the
Renaissance and explain the significance of their achievements.
• 4. I can describe and analyze the origin, causes, and effects of the Reformation.
• 5. I can compare and analyze the beliefs and ideas of the leading Protestant
reformers.
• 6. I can summarize and analyze the reforms and the intent of the Roman Catholic
Church’s Counter-Reformation.
• 7. I can describe key features and personalities of the Renaissance and
Reformation and analyze their contributions to the period.
• 8. I can determine when primary and secondary sources would be most useful in
analyzing historical events and use information form theses sources to support
written work.
Justification by faith
Theocracy
Reformation
Secularism
excommunication
Renaissance
Predestination
Great
Schism
Protestant
skepticism
Humanism
sect
Counter
Reformation
Indulgence
Huguenots
Activity One
• In your learning log write five “aha”
statements, questions, and/or analyses for
the two work of art on the following slide
(2minutes)
• Discuss with two other students in your area
(2 minutes)
Duccio, Rucellai
Madonna, 13th century
Sofonisba Anguissola
The Chess Game 1555
Characteristics
Middle Ages
Religion
the Roman Catholic Church
dominated both spiritual
and political areas of life
Art
art was dominated by
religious icons
Renaissance
Humanism and the
individual become
important
The individual becomes a
subject
Many patrons of the arts
Economics
Social Classes
Government
feudalism was the main
economic system
society consisted of three
major social classes
(nobles, serfs, and clergy)
empires were ruled by
emperors or kings who
ruled according to the
“divine right of kings.”
Merchants and banking
Growing middle class
Wealth not birthright
Ideas of democracy
The Middle Ages (Dark Ages or
Medieval Times)
• 500 AD- 1500 AD
• Famine
• War
– 100 years war
– Crusades
• Black Death (the plague)
1348-1350 (peak)
• The Gutenberg Printing Press
1450
• The Roman Catholic Church
– The great Schism
• What impact would
these events have on
the individuals view of
the Church and their
government?
• http://www.history.co
m/topics/crusades/vide
os#the-crusades
Renaissance
“rebirth” – an age
of intellectual and
artistic revival
centered in the
classical antiquity
of Greek and
Roman literature
that began about
1350 A.D. and
lasted until 1650
A.D
Why do you think that
Italy was the birth
place of the
Renaissance?
http://www.history.com/t
opics/italianrenaissance/videos#the
-renaissance
Italy the Birth Place of the
Renaissance
• City-states
• Trade
• Merchant and banking
class
– The Medici Family and
Florence
• Center of Greek and
Roman heritage
Lorenzo the Magnificent
Causes and Effects
Where it began and why
Why it was successful
What it accomplished
How was it diffused
throughout Europe
Major differences between the
Italian Renaissance and the
Northern Europe Renaissance
Impact on religion, economics,
social classes, and government
C: Banking and trade, crusades, city-states,
wealth, printing press E: advances in science and
technology, humanism, secularism, art
Northern Italy: trade, merchant and banking
families, city-states, Rome and Greece
The Renaissance Man and
Women
Renaissance Art
• Perspective
• Study of the human
form
• Religion still a part of
art but the individual
becomes a subject
• Patrons of the arts
The Last Supper (1495-1498) da Vinci
Italy
Realistic style copied from Rome and
Greece
Donatello
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1386-1466
Florence
Sculpture
David- bronze, 1440
made for the Medici
family
Leonardo da Vinci
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1452-1519
Mona Lisa
The Last Supper
Renaissance Man
http://www.biography.com/people/
leonardo-da-vinci-40396
Michelangelo
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1475-1564
Rome
Medici Family
David
Sistine Chapel ceiling
– Fresco
Raphael
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1483-1520
Florence/Rome
Painter and architect
Worked for the
Church
Northern Europe
Realism
Social reform based on Christian
values
Germany
Albrecht Durer
Hans Holbein
Flanders
Van Eyck
Bruegel
Filippo
Brunelleschi
(1337–1446) is
widely
considered the
first
Renaissance
architect.
• What innovation or invention do you think
has had the largest impact on the world?
Why do you think this? (answer in your
learning log) (3 minutes)
• Discuss with two other people in your area
(2 minutes)
The Printing Press
• What role did the printing press play on the
spread of Renaissance ideas?
Renaissance Writers
Francesco Petrarch
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1304-1374
Italian
Father of Humanism
Other Italian writers
– Machiavelli
William Shakespeare
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1564-1616
English
Playwright and poet
The Globe Theater
Queen Elizabeth I
Other English Writers
– Sir Thomas More
Shakespeare in the movies!
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Lion King =
Hamlet
West Side Story=
Romeo and Juliet
10 Things I hate
about you=
Taming of the
Shrew
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O= Othello
She’s the man=
12th Night