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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 ________________________. ! 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. ! 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 ________________________. ! 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. ! Page !1 of !3 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 ________________________. ! 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. ! 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. ! Page !2 of !3 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. Page !3 of !3