Download Unit 1 Lesson 2 - The Renaissance

World History II
The Renaissance
Lecture Notes:
Unit 1 Lesson 2
Standard WHII.2b
To Do:
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Vocabulary
Interpretation
Question of the day
Notes
Activity - Drawings
Multiple Choice Analysis
Vocabulary
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Middle Ages
Theologian
Renaissance
Humanism
Catholic
Pagan
Secular
Feudalism
Interpretation:
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Would you be willing to ignore everything
going on around you (EVERY aspect of your
worldly life) and instead focus only on living a
perfectly sinless life and getting into heaven?
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Why?
Why not?
What do you think the rest of your classmates
are going to say?
Question of the Day
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What were the artistic, literary, and intellectual
ideas of the Renaissance?
Life in the Middle Ages
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The people of Europe are simple, hard
working and Religious.
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They focus on getting into Heaven rather
than living well on Earth.
How did Europe become so Catholic?
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They used to be Pagan
The Empire Transitions
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350 CE Roman
Emperor Constantine
I becomes
Catholic…and so
does the rest of the
Empire.
The Roman Empire
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West:
31 BC
To
 476 CE
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East:
31 BC
To
 1453
CE
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Catholicism in the Middle Ages
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476 CE Western half of
Roman Empire dies
and the Pope becomes
the most powerful man
in Europe.
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During the Middle
Ages (476 – 1300 CE),
the majority of Europe
is strongly Catholic.
Greek and Roman knowledge stays
with the Empire…lost elsewhere.
The Return Voyage Brings…
Humanism
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Petrarch (1304-1374)
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Father of Humanism
Poet and Author
Humanism Defined:
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Studying man’s history and present
actions rather than the Bible.
Erasmus (of Rotterdam 1466-1536 )
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Dutch humanist and theologian
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The Praise of Folly (1511)
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Pointed out and made fun of the
corruption of the Catholic Church.
Wanted to stay with the
Catholic Church
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Influenced Martin Luther and is
therefore sometimes called the
father of the reformation
Why people questioned the Pope - 1
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What
would you
think if 1/3
of this
class was
dead
tomorrow
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Disease Spreads…but so do ideas.
Why people questioned the Pope - 2
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With trade comes
new ideas…the
idea that another
culture does things
differently might
make me question
my own.
Activity!
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On your activity page take 5 minutes to draw
a humanist:
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What might they look like?
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What might they have with them?
Medieval Art
“Renaissance Man”
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Michelangelo - Italian
Renaissance sculptor,
painter, architect and
poet.
The Sistine
Chapel
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Pope Julius II
paid
Michelangelo to
paint the
ceiling…took him
4 years to do it.
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Laid on his back
painting wet
plaster while on
high scaffolds.
Leonardo da Vinci
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Italian Renaissance
mathematician,
architect, anatomist,
sculptor, engineer,
inventor, scientist,
musician, and
painter.
Activity!
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On your activity page take 5 minutes to draw
a Renaissance Man:
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What might they look like?
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What might they have with them?
Northern Renaissance
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The Renaissance moves north during the
1500s.
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Again, ideas move with trade.
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Two important figures = King Louis XIV of
France and William Shakespeare.
The Palace at Versailles
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Built just outside of
Paris, France in the
17th century, it was the
height of the European
Renaissance.
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So was Louis XIV, the
Sun King.
William Shakespeare (1564 –1616)
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English
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Best known poet to write
in the English language.
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Wrote plays, sonnets,
and poems.
Activity!
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With your group, create a drawing
summarizing the Renaissance.
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What are the main ideas?
Why is the Renaissance important?
Where did the Renaissance happen?
What events caused the Renaissance?
Question of the Day
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What were the artistic, literary, and intellectual
ideas of the Renaissance?
Multiple Choice Question Analysis
Extra Time Movie
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Kingdom of Heaven