286783836 | effected all of western europe | the renaissance period | 0 | |
286783837 | the renaissance period | after the middle ages, stronger trade system, lasted from the mid 1300s to the early 1700s | 1 | |
286783838 | the renaissance period | time of rebirth of classical learing of ancient greece and rome | 2 | |
286783839 | philosophy | searching for truth and meaning; better understanding of human nature; studying socrates, plato, and aristotle | 3 | |
286783840 | literature | the iliad, the odyssey, the aeneid | 4 | |
286783841 | art | beautification of the human body; balance and harmony | 5 | |
286783842 | science | geocentric theory; human anatomy, circumference of the earth | 6 | |
286783843 | ptolemy | known for the geocentric theory | 7 | |
286783844 | galen | known for the human anatomy | 8 | |
286783845 | eratosthenes | known for the circumference of the earth | 9 | |
286783846 | reason | aristotles locgica, thinking, organizing and classifing data, drawing conclusions | 10 | |
286783847 | florence italy | where the birth of the renaissance took place | 11 | |
286783848 | the medici family | first to start the patrons of the arts, controlled gov't from behind the scenes, family of merchants, one of the brothers became a pope | 12 | |
286783849 | patron of the arts | person who would take a starving artist in and house, clothe, and feed him; artists would make art for either family or for beautifican of the city | 13 | |
286783850 | started off as starving artists | michelangelo, rafael, donatello, leonardo da vinci | 14 | |
286783851 | humanites | study of classical literature, rhetoric, grammer, and history; renaissance men were intrested in it | 15 | |
286783852 | humanists | schoarly people who wrote on nonreligious ideas such as human experiences and emotions | 16 | |
286783853 | famous humanists | francesco petrarch, william shakespeare | 17 | |
286783854 | francesco petrarch | father of humanism, first to write in prose, addressed his letters to laura | 18 | |
286783855 | renaissance | became an explosion of creative and independant thinking | 19 | |
286783856 | johannes gutenberg | invented the printing press in germany | 20 | |
286783857 | subhistorical time periods of renaissance | reformation, scientific revolution, exploration | 21 | |
286783858 | baldassare castiglione | author of the courtier, wrote his opinion of a ren. man, diplomat who worked for the medicis , messanger | 22 | |
286783859 | isabella d'este | married to king--husband died she was left to rule, wrote letters mostly to michelangelo, thought ren. women were greater then ren. men | 23 | |
286783860 | code of life during renaissance | individual achievement for fame and wealth; enjoy life | 24 | |
286783861 | goverment during renaissance | centrailized for due to strong kings; formation of nation-states | 25 | |
286783862 | economy during renaissance | growth of trade b/t middle east and europe, growth of middle class, merchants becoming patrons of the arts, | 26 | |
286783863 | middle class during renaissance | between very rich and very poor, made up of merchants, traders, doctors, lawyers, ect. | 27 | |
286783864 | loyalty during renaissance | king and country first followed by pride in ones city/town , people loyal to themselves | 28 | |
286783865 | education during renaissance | very important, classical learning and modern info, scientists testing middle ages theories, humanities, learing lots of subjects | 29 | |
286783866 | catholic church during renaissance | loss of influence, more intrested in life on earth | 30 | |
286783867 | cities/towns during renaissance | enhanced through urbanization and beautiful due to increased wealth of middle class | 31 | |
286783868 | art during renaissance | studied the way greeks/romans portrayed human body, self portraits, sculptures, religious paintings, and technique of perspective (3 dimensional) | 32 | |
286783869 | literature during renaissance | autobiographies, lives of real people, prose, themes about emotions, relationships, and personalities | 33 |
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