Download Marco Polo - Northside Middle School

 Learning
Objective:
Today we will learn how
the growth of port cities
in Italy led to a rebirth of
the arts and learning.
Roman
Empire
476 AD
Middle Ages
500 AD
Crusades
1096 AD
Renaissance
1400 AD
Black Death
1347AD
Renaissance- rebirth, and refers
to the time period that followed
the Middle Ages
 humanism- Learning that
stresses the importance of
human abilities and actions.
 Marco Polo- a trader from
Venice, Italy that traveled from
Europe to China
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Kublai Khan invited Marco Polo to
stay in his court in Asia.
The greatest of the Florence bankers
were the Medici family. They were
very wealthy and they supported
the arts.
- Interest is a fee that lenders charge
people who borrow money from
them.
 Dante
Alighieri- Italian
writer who wrote in Italian.
Author of The Inferno.
 Niccolo Machiavelli- Italian
writer and politician. Author
of The Prince.
Michelangelo- Italian
painter/sculptor. Carved Statue
of David, painted ceiling of Sistine
Chapel.
 Leonardo da Vinci- Italian
sculptor, painter, inventor,
engineer. Painted Mona Lisa, The
Last Supper.
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-What is the Renaissance ?
 - What is Humanism?
 - Who was Marco Polo?
 - What did Michelangelo paint?
What did he carve?
 - Name two paintings that
Leonardo da Vinci painted.
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Genoa and Venice are important port cities.
Florence becomes very important wool trade
and banking.
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The Medici familywealthy bankers
Artists
* This man was a writer
during the Renaissance
who was born and raised
in Florence, Italy.
* He was also a poet and
politician. He is known
for writing “The Inferno”
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Wrote the
book The
Prince.
 He advised
Leaders on
how they
should rule.
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Michelangelo
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Leonardo da Vinci
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The David
Sistine Chapel
Learning Objective:
Today we will learn how
the Italian Renaissance
spread beyond Italy.
 Johann
Gutenberg- invented
the printing press.
 William
Shakespearegreatest writer in the English
language.
Renaissance scientists studied
ancient math texts. They created
the symbols for square roots
and for positive (+) and negative () numbers.
 Studied astronomy to learn about
the sun, stars, and planets.
(*Earth moves around the sun.)
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The first book he printed was the Bible
• Created over 2,000
words in the English
language
• Wrote more than 30
comedies, tragedies,
and histories. (Plays)
• Wrote famous plays like
“Romeo and Juliet”
and “Hamlet”.
Michelangelo
Marco Polo
Dante
Leonardo
Shakespeare
Machiavelli
Gutenberg
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- What did Johann Gutenberg invent?
- William Shakespeare was known as the
greatest what in history?
- What did Renaissance scientists study in math
and what did they create?
- What else did Renaissance scientists study to
learn about the sun, moon, and the stars?
- What did Renaissance scientists find out
about what the Earth does around the sun?