Unit 12 Changes in Europe
Renaissance: Rebirth of Europe following the Middle Ages
Begins in Italy
Causes:
Black Death
Surplus of food
Less need for peasants to farm
Crusades
Restarts travel and trade
Byzantine scholars
Moved back to Western Europe (After Ottoman takeover)
Brought education and learning
Rich and powerful merchants
Bought art
DeMedici family: Most powerful Italian merchant family
Commissioned the first dome in Europe
Return to Classical: Greek and Roman learning/education
Humanism: Philosophy
Encourages the questioning of authority (The Roman Catholic Church and monarchs)
The Vitruvian Man: Leonardo da Vinci
Personification of Humanism
Printing Press: spreads information (Facilitates the Protestant Reformation)
Protestant Reformation
Martin Luther’s 95 Theses
Renaissance: Rebirth of Europe following the Middle Ages
Begins in Italy
Causes:
Black Death
Surplus of food
Less need for peasants to farm
Crusades
Restarts travel and trade
Byzantine scholars
Moved back to Western Europe (After Ottoman takeover)
Brought education and learning
Rich and powerful merchants
Bought art
DeMedici family: Most powerful Italian merchant family
Commissioned the first dome in Europe
Return to Classical: Greek and Roman learning/education
Humanism: Philosophy
Encourages the questioning of authority (The Roman Catholic Church and monarchs)
The Vitruvian Man: Leonardo da Vinci
Personification of Humanism
Printing Press: spreads information (Facilitates the Protestant Reformation)
Protestant Reformation
Martin Luther’s 95 Theses