Modern World History: Unit 1: The Renaissance, Reformation, and World Religions

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Black Plague

1347 arrives in Sicily from China; hits then leaves Italy first

1/3 of Europeans killed

Survivors demanded higher wages and began to look at life differently

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Renaissance

Revolutionary rebirth of art and learning in Europe
Rediscovery of Greek and Roman advancement

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Italy’s Advantages

Plague hit and left early

Urban centers – center of trade for Crusades etc

Merchants/Medici – patrons of the arts

Close to lost Greek and Roman literature and thinking

City states divided power; no singular leader to take absolute rule

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Secularism

not religious, focusing on life in the present