Renaissance Quiz Review

​The Renaissance was between approximately 1300 and 1600 AD after the medieval (Middle Ages) in Europe

Time period

​It began in the Italian city-states and later spread to northern Europe

Location

Renaissance is a French word

It means rebirth.

RE = AGAIN

It was a rebirth of ideas.

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Renaissance
meaning

There was a new focus on the interests and perspective of humans called humanism.

Humanism

There was a new interest in the art and learning of classical Greece and Rome.

Classical ideas

Trade!!!

The Italian city-states were centers of trade.
This gave them:
1) Money ($$$) to support art and architecture.
2) Contact with new ideas from other civilizations.

​A Greek philosopher believed that the planets revolved around the Earth

Artistole

​Copernicus was a Polish scientist who said that the SUN, not the earth, was the center of the universe.

Galileo, in Italy, agreed with Copernicus. He was arrested by the Catholic church.

Copernicus and Galileo

-Gutenberg invented the printing press

-books could by made faster and more cheaply
-as a result, literacy (reading) and ideas spread

in the Renaissance

-books were copied by hand

-they were expensive ($$$$$)

-most people in Europe did not read and write

in the Middle Ages