World History Honors: The Renissance

What were the 3 factors that caused the revival of trade and towns

End of barbarian invasions, safer transportation, and surplus

How did contact with the wider world through the Crusades help revive trade in Europe during the late Middle Ages?

There was increased demand for Eastern products like spices, sugar, silk and paper and the holy center of trade connected the Middle East and Europe.

What group of people are most responsible for spreading he Black Death throughout Europe?

merchants

List the 4 effects of the Crusades

Broadened outlook, stimulated trade and towns, strengthening kings and central government, and weakened serfdom

What religious shift happened during the plague?

The people started to lose faith in god.

Define humanism

the power of humans- human achievement

How did the Renissance humanism differ from the Medieval Christian Worldview?

Renissance humanism was focused on the world and human achievement less than religion.

Which 2 teachings did Renissance humanism combine?

Greek and Roman ideas and Medieval Christian Worldview

Renissance thinkers and artists rejected many medieval traditions in favor of new philosophical ideals. How did these ideals reflect the art in the period?

less exclusively divine, emphasis on achievement, depicted in this world

WHich subject or topic would be least emphasized in a humanist school?

Theology

Who was the father of humanism?

petrach

What skill did Petrarch teach his school?

how to write persuasively

Identify key events form Petrach’s life

Born in Florence Italy, father did notary, moved to Avignon, dropped out of law school, changed education, worked for powerful patrons, and climbed a mountain carrying Augustine confessions.

Define secularism

Focus on here and now

Explain what realism in Renissance art looked like

Life like people

Identify key characteristic of Renissance art

realism, perspective, line drawing, color, order and balance.

What did humanization of the divine look like

Jesus as a baby-made him more human like

What idea was signified in Brunelleschi’ dome on the church of San Lorenzo

Showed that there is no limit in a man’s power when he put effort in.

What was the main idea and goal of the prince by Machiavelli?

To teach people how to be a effective ruler and how to gain and maintain control

What 2 adjectives did Machiavelli use to describe an ideal leader?

Feared and smart

Rewrite your Medici Godfathers of the Renissance video notes

Florence had a republic, Medici and friends were looking for lost secrets from the ancient world, they made a bank and chose clients carefully, they provided funding for Florence and collected from all over Europe.

How did Machiavelli describe an effective ruler?

A successful ruler must be able to recognize traps and make others fear him in a way that he is not hated.