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The Renaissance
Italian Renaissance
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History
9th Grade
04/06/2017

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Term
Renaissance
Definition
Rebirth
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Why did the Renaissance begin in Italy?
Definition

1. Italy was divided into city states

2. Italy had alot of trade due to its location

3. Italy had alot of merchants and money

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Humanism
Definition
*Focus was on the individual
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Renaissance Man
Definition
Someome who had talents in arts, literature, science, etc.
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Secular
Definition
Worldy rather then spiritual
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PATRONS
Definition
People who financed/financially supported artists
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Vernacular
Definition
Native language
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Leonardo da Vinci
Definition
Painted the "Last Supper" and the Mona lisa
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Michelangelo
Definition

Painted the Sistene Chapel

 

Scultped the statue of David

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Cervantes
Definition
Wrote "Don Quixote"
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Copernicous
Definition
Came up with the heliocentric model which disproved Ptolemy's geocentric model that was church approved
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Why did the renaissance start in Northern Italy  specifically?
Definition
The French king had invaded southern Italy (Naples)
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William Shakespeare
Definition

Wrote:

Romeo and juliet

Othello

MacBeth

Hamlet

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Utopia
Definition
Perfect society
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Johann Gutenberg
Definition
Created the printing press
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Benefits of the printing press?
Definition

1. Now 100's of book could be printed instead of 1 a year

2. books were printed in different vernaculars besides Latin

3. Information spread

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When did the Renaissnce begin? End?
Definition
1300-1600
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Machiavelli/The Prince
Definition
Machiavelli wrote "The Prince" which said to be a succesful leader you must be feared rather than loved.
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Machivelli/The Prince
Definition
Machiavelli wrote "The Prince" which said to be a succesful leader you must be feared rather than loved.
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Where did renaissance thinkers get their ideas from?
Definition
Classical Greece and Rome
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