Causes & Effects
Essential Questions:
• What caused the Italian Renaissance?
• How were the Italian and Northern
Renaissance alike but different?
What is the Renaissance?
• Rebirth
• Explosion of New Ideas & Learning
• Rebirth
• Explosion of New Ideas & Learning
• Rediscovery of Classical Greek &
Roman Culture
• Humanism—worth of Individual
• Secularism—worldly not religious
Causes of the Italian Renaissance
• Crusades
• Control of Mediterranean Trade
• Crusades
• Control of Mediterranean Trade
• Sophistication of Italian
City-States
• Growth of Banking &
Trade
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Crusades
Control of Mediterranean Trade
Sophistication of Italian City-States
Growth of Banking & Trade
Excess Wealth: de Medici family of
Florence
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Crusades
Control of Mediterranean Trade
Sophistication of Italian City-States
Growth of Banking & Trade
Excess Wealth: de Medici family of
Florence
• Printing
Press
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Crusades
Control of Mediterranean Trade
Sophistication of Italian City-States
Growth of Banking & Trade
Excess Wealth: de Medici family of
Florence
• Printing
Press
Italian v. Northern Renaissance
Italy
North
Italian
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Italy
Rome, Florence,
Venice
Mediterranean Trade
De Medici
Michelangelo,
Da Vinci, Raphael
Italian v. Northern Renaissance
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North
Amsterdam,
Antwerp, London
Rhine & Thames
Rivers
Jacob Fugger
Jan Van Eyck,
Brueghel
Italian v. Northern Renaissance
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Italy
Rome, Florence,
Venice
Mediterranean Trade
De Medici
Michaelangelo, Da
Vinci, Raphael
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North
Amsterdam,
Antwerp, London
Rhine & Thames
Rivers
Jacob Fugger
Jan Van Eyck,
Brueghel
Effects of the Renaissance
• Advances in Science & Technology led to the
European Exploration of the World
• Secularism led to the Protestant Reformation
• Humanism encouraged the growth of
Democracy & the Fight for Human Rights
• Role of Women in Society Improved
• Renaissance Art led to the Age of Classical
Music and Art in Europe