Transcript From Renaissance to Revolution with

From Renaissance to
Revolution with
Reformation in Between
Mrs. Coxwell
Geography
What ever happened to
the Middle Ages?
• The growth of
cities and trade
and the gradual
breakup of
feudalism led to
the end of the
middle ages.
Here comes the
Renaissance!
• Around 1350 interest in
education, art, and science
started the Renaissance.
• Renaissance is a French word
meaning “rebirth.”
• The Renaissance began in
northern Italy.
What’s going on around
me?
• Scholars became
less concerned
with the mysteries
of heaven (church
teachings) and
more interested in
the world and
humans around
them. This is
caused
HUMANISM.
Humanist believe what?
• The Basic
Humanist idea
is: the right of
people to learn
and think for
themselves.
Let’s talk about Art!
• Renaissance artists appreciated
the beauty in human beings and
nature.
• Painted religious things, people
and creatures of myths.
• They were interested in human
qualities than religious qualities
of their subjects.
Give me some names
• Leonardo da Vinci was
an inventor, sculptor,
and artist.
• Michelangelo was a
sculptor and a painter.
He expressed human
emotions like anger,
sorrow and strength.
His most famous work
is the mural on the
ceiling of the Sistine
Chapel in the Vatican
Palace in Rome.
Renaissance Writers
• Writers began to use
the language they
spoke every day
instead of Latin or
French.
• Geoffrey Chaucer: The
Canterbury Tales.
• William Shakespeare:
Hamlet, and Romeo
and Juliet.
• Miguel de Cervantes:
Don Quixote in Spanish
How could all of these
books be possible?
• These works were reproduced in
many copies for the first time by the
printing press.
• Printing press was invented by
Johannes Gutenberg around 1450.
(Movable type)
• Printing press made books more
numerous and less expensive,
thereby encouraging more people to
learn to read and write.
The growth of nations
• Western rulers
became more
powerful they
united their
people.
• Nations were
based on
common
language and
culture.
Protestant Reformation
begins.
• By the Renaissance people
were questioning the corruption
of the Roman Catholic Church.
• One corrupt practice were
indulgences.
• The movement to reform the
Catholic Church was called the
Protestant Reformation.
Martin Luther: The Monk
• Martin Luther was
a German monk
and scholar.
• 1520 Luther
organized his own
Christian Church.
• This Church taught
in German, not
Latin.
John Calvin came along
too
• John Calvin was
another protestant
leader.
• His followers in
France were called
Huguenots, in
England they were
called Puritans.
• Puritans would
seek religious
freedom in the
Americas.
Going exploring anyone?
• European exploration began in the
mid 1400s. They were looking for a
better trade route to Asia.
• Portuguese: 1488 Bartholomeu Dias
reached the southern tip of South
Africa (The Cape of Good Hope)
• 1492 Christopher Columbus reached
the new world.
The Columbian
Exchange
• The trade of goods,
people, diseases, and
ideas were distributed
around the world in a
process called the
Columbian Exchange.
• In the beginning Native
Americans were
laborers for the
Europeans. Africans
were later shipped to
the new world as
slaves.
Say you want a
revolution
• Revolution: 2nd definition: A sudden violent
change.
• Divine right of kings idea was coming to an
end.
• People began to believe that they needed a
greater part in government.
• Government should protect its citizens.
• These were ideas that came from scholars
like John Locke and Jean Jacques
Rousseau.