Download Christian Crusades: East and West Medieval

The Renaissance
Late 1200’s-1600’s
See History as a Story
• Middle Ages: late 400’s-1300’s
• Renaissance: late 1200’s-1600’s
• Historical periods overlap and permeate
each other…
Learning Targets
1. Why did the Renaissance begin in
Northern Italy?
2. What were the major values of the
Renaissance.
3. How was the Renaissance movement a
change (paradigm shift) from the Middle
Ages?
Causes of the Renaissance
1. The Rise of City-States: Genoa, Venice &
Florence
– What is a City-State?
– City (urban) v country (rual)
– How different from most
of Europe?
– How might a city set the stage for a “rebirth” to occur?
Christian Crusades: East and West
Medieval Trade
Causes of the Renaissance cont.
2. The development of a Merchant class
– What is a Merchant?
– How different from feudal nobles?
Causes of the Renaissance
3. Popes from the Catholic Church had
moved Papacy from Rome to Avignon
(Great Schism).
– How might this encourage change?
Causes of the Renaissance
4. Visual Remains of Roman Empire
Causes of the Renaissance
5. Patrons to the Arts
-What is a Patron?
Identify and Explain the 5 main causes
of the Renaissance in Northern Italy
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Renaissance Values
• Individualism – Celebration of the
Individual.
– How a paradigm shift from the middle ages?
Renaissance Values cont.
• Humanism – Love of classical learning.
– How a paradigm shift from the middle ages?
Renaissance Values cont.
• Secularism – Separation of Religion and
State.
– Enjoyment of Worldly Pleasures
– How a paradigm shift from the middle ages?
– What contributed to the rise in Secularism?