Download History: Pre - Renaissance

History: Pre - Renaissance
• Western –Civilization
• Greco-Roman Empire
• Fall of Rome
• Dark – Ages
• How religion played a part
• What was happening in the rest of
the world
Western –Civilization
There are three major themes whose
development and interplay have shaped the
distinctive characteristics that set Western
civilization apart from the other great historic
cultures. They are the growth of a tradition of
rational scientific inquiry, the persistence of a
tension between Judaeo-Christian religious ideals
and social realities, the emergence of
constitutional forms of government.
-- Joint statement of introduction by Brian Tierney, Donald Kagan and L. Pearce Williams (Great
Issues in Western Civilization, 2 vols., N.Y.: McGraw-Hill, 1992), p. xi.
Europe
Australia
South America
North America
Antarctica
Asia
Atlantic Ocean
Pacific Ocean
Arctic Ocean
Indian Ocean
Rome
Asia
Mesopotamia
Europe
Egypt
Greece
Africa
Why do we study ancient
Greek civilization?
People have been studying the Greeks for so long that
we have learned to see them in many different ways.
Some people see the Greeks as the beginning of
Western Civilization: if you want to take this approach,
you might teach about how the Greeks invented the
geometrical proof, the scientific method, the writing of
history and plays. You might also mention how much
our literature owes to Greek mythology, our civic
architecture to the Greek temple, our churches to the
Greek basilica, and our theaters to the Greek theater.
Some people see the Greeks as very much like us; if you
want to show them that way you'd talk about their
democratic government, their court system, and their
poetry.
Roman Empire
Greco-Roman Empire
Greek Architecture
Roman Architecture
Greek Art
Roman Art
Fall of Rome
• 1• 2• 3-
Dark – Ages
Catacombs. Paris, France.
Lochner
Ligier Richier. 1544
Cistercian monks. Bone Chapel.
Paul Fürst, Doktor Schnabel von Rom
("Doctor Beak of Rome"),1656.
Crivelli
How religion played a part
• 1• 2• 3-
The rest of the world
Tang and Song Dynasty
Gupta Empire
History: The Renaissance
• ‘Rebirth’
• Thinking and the church
• Martin Luther
• Galileo Galilei
• Leonardo da Vinci
• Cultural Implications