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Chapter 4: The Spread of Ideas (Pg. 97)
Inquiry Question
How do ideas and knowledge spread?
The Information Age
The Renaissance was also an ________________________ age in that there were so
many new ________________________ and so much new
________________________. The Renaissance began in
________________________ and eventually spread through France,
Spain, and ________________________ as well as northern
________________________. Later, ideas also spread from the
________________________ to Renaissance Europe. Spreading ideas
and ________________________ 500 years ago was very
________________________ than it is today. At the beginning of the
Renaissance, information was still ________________________ spread by
________________________ of ________________________.
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Gathering Great Minds
Some ________________________ merchants played an important role in the
________________________ of ________________________ and
________________________. In Florence, the Medici family established
the ________________________ Academy where humanist thinkers
gathered to discuss ________________________ ideas.
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Universities
Many early ________________________ taught at Italian universities.
They shared their new ideas through ________________________ with one
another and through their writings. Some instructors, such as Vesalius at the
University of Padua, were so ________________________ that students
came from
across Europe to study with them. The students then went back to their own cities and
________________________ their ________________________.
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Traveling Celebrities
Famous Renaissance scientists, artists, and thinkers like Leonardo da Vinci and Erasmus were
the “________________________” of their day. They were in demand in
________________________ and ________________________ all over Europe. Everywhere
Leonardo went, he set up a ________________________ and ________________________
younger artists. Erasmus taught at several universities and engaged in
________________________ with ________________________ all over Europe both in person
and by letter.
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Royal Courts
Kings and queens were eager to attract ________________________ and
________________________ to their courts. The court of François
1er (Francis I) of France became a centre of
________________________. He collected
________________________, Renaissance
________________________, and ________________________.
He invited Leonardo da Vinci to his court after France invaded
________________________ in ________________________. He
provided Leonardo with a house and a very generous
________________________.
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The Printing Press: A New Technology
If you lived in ________________________ at the beginning of the
________________________, you would probably have been ________________________.
Only the most ________________________ people in society could read
and write. Being ________________________ meant that you needed to
know ________________________ or ________________________.
Most books at that time were written in ________________________, the
language of ________________________ and the
________________________. And finally, unless you were very
________________________, you would never be able to
________________________ a book.
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Johannes Gutenberg
In about ________________________, everything changed. A German named
________________________ ________________________ developed a printing press that
allowed books to be produced ________________________ and ________________________.
Using this new technology, printers could produce ________________________ of books in the
time it had once taken to make a ________________________ copy. They were printed on
paper, which was much ________________________
________________________ than ________________________. By
1500, there were more than six ________________________ books in
print in Europe. Books allowed an ________________________ of
________________________ and ________________________ in Europe
on a ________________________ that had ________________________
been known before. Now that books were ________________________ and
more ________________________, middle-class people began to read,
________________________, and eventually ________________________ about the exciting
ideas of their time.
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The Spread of Knowledge
Instead of printing books ________________________ in Latin, more books were printed in the
________________________, that is, the language that ________________________ people
spoke. The success of Luther’s 1522 New Testament was based in part on existing demand for
books and Bibles in German. Thinkers like ________________________ made
________________________ from the ________________________ they wrote. This gave
them the ________________________ to ________________________ to many
________________________ and ________________________ spreading their ideas. Instead of
printing books ________________________ in Latin, more books were printed in the
________________________, that is, the language that ________________________ people
spoke. The success of Luther’s 1522 New Testament was based in part on existing demand for
books and Bibles in German.
Thinkers like ________________________ made ________________________ from the
________________________ they wrote. This gave them the ________________________ to
________________________ to many ________________________ and
________________________ spreading their ideas.
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