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TN STANDARD 7.44 AND 7.43
Renaissance = “Rebirth”
How did Western Europe gain “new” knowledge leading to
the Renaissance?
Western Europe gained new knowledge about the study of
ancient Roman and Greek Works from the
1. Moorish Scholars
2. Crusaders who came into contact with Muslim scholars
Renaissance Began in Florence, Italy
Medici Family
 Banking family
 Ruled the Florence CityState
Florence considered the Epicenter of the Renaissance
(The birth place of the
Renaissance)
Renaissance (TN Standard 7.48 & 7.53)
Challenged accepted beliefs focused on art and culture
IMPORTANT PEOPLE
Michelangelo – artist, sculptor
• The ceiling of the Sistine Chapel
• The statue “David”
Leonardo da Vinci- artist, inventor,
scientist
• Mona Lisa, The Last Super
Johann Gutenberg- invented the printing
press
• helped spread ideas quickly
• Made books available to more people
• Catholic Church upset that Bibles being
printed into the vernacular (everyday
language)
William Shakespeare – author, poet,
playwright
• Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet
Renaissance Leads to Reforms (TN Standard 7.46)
• Humanism - system of values and beliefs that is based on
the idea that people are basically good and that problems
can be solved using reason instead of religion; focus of the
individual
• During this time people became more secular - focused on
this world instead of getting into heaven
• Humanist believed that faith and science went hand in
hand
Reformation Begins (TN Standard 7.55 & 7.50)
Challenged accepted beliefs of the Catholic Church
Many Kings and Princes supported the Protestant Movement
because it gave them more power and took power away from
the Pope.
Protestantism – Christian religions not Catholic
IMPORTANT PEOPLE
• Martin Luther – 95 Thesis starts the Reformation
(Lutheran)
• John Calvin – Calvinism – Predestination
• Desiderius Erasmus - criticized the
Catholic Church – wrote The Praise of
Folly
• William Tyndale - Translated the
Bible into English
• Henry VIII – Created the Church of England
with The Act of Supremacy - Made the king
the head of a new church in England
Scientific Revolution (TN Standard 7.60)
• Challenged accepted beliefs about the world and nature
• Heliocentric Theory of the Universe Copernicus believed that the sun not the
Earth was the center of the universe.
• The church favored the Geocentric or earth
centered theory by Aristotle and Ptolemy
•
Moorish scholars laid the foundation for medical
books
• Galileo – Father of Modern Science
• Isaac Newton - developed the Three Laws of Motion
and the concept of gravity
• René Descartes was a French
philosopher, mathematician, and
scientist. Dubbed the father of
modern western philosophy
• Johannes Kepler - German mathematician, astronomer, and
astrologer, best known for his laws of planetary motion
TN Standard 7.59
 The Moorish Scholars laid the foundation for algebra and wrote
medical books that were used throughout Europe during the
Scientific Revolution.
• The Renaissance, the Reformation, and the Scientific Revolution
all challenged accepted beliefs at that time.