Renaissance

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Renaissance

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Rebirth of interest in learning and art.

*Changes began in Italy around the 1300s

*Traders bought and sold goods from every region

-Rich grew richer, gave money to support artists

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Looking to the past

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*People re-examined the ideas of the Greeks and Romans

*Focused on literature. ideas, buildings, art

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Humanism

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*People began to focus on improving the world

rather than hoping for a better after-life

*emphasized the importance of human nature and the abilities of humans to change the world.

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Who is Michelangelo?

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*painter, poet, architect, and sculptor

*art became an important way to understand man, God, and nature

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What is the Printing press?

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*Invented around 1450 in Germany

*-before the press, books were carefully hand copied

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What are the effects of the printing press?

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1. Increased literacy

2. Allowed ideas of the Renaissance to spread to large number of people

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More Trade, Stronger Rulers

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*1492 Columbus lands in the Americas while searching for a shortcut to India

*-begin trading spices , gold, silver

*other European countries began to trade overseas

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What are the effects of trade?

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*wealth of the trade mostly went to monarchs

*some went to traders or merchants

*feudalism declined because lords grew weaker and kings gained power

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What is a monarch?

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*Rulers such as Kings and Queens

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The Age of Monarchs

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*1600s-1700s

*Monarchs became absolute Monarchs (complete control)

Ex: King Louis 14th

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Who is King Louis 14th?

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*ruled from 1643-1715

*believed his power to rule came from God and to go against his wishes meant to go against God

*taxed France heavily, lived a life of luxury

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What is the English Revolution?

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*People began to believe that a king should not have all the power

*took King Charles I to court because he refused to share power with parliament, then out to death

*no more absolute power

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What is the American Revolution?

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*the idea that people should have a say in their government spread to the Americas

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What is a colony?

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*territory ruled by another nation

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What happened in 1776?

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*13 colonies rebelled against the British King because they felt that the laws weren't fair and they weren't being represented in Parliament

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What happened at the 1789 Revolution in France?

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* people used extreme violence to overthrow their government/the king

* created chaos

* inspired new radical theories about politics and economics

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What happened in the revolution of Science?

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*Basis of worldview religion went from religious to scientific

-influenced by the Renaissance and humanism

-carefully observed nature and only wrote down what they observed

-then based their theories on the facts they observed

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What is the scientific method?

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*started in part with a man named Copernicus

-He shocked the world by saying that Earth rotated around the Sun

-needed procedures to test their ideas

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What is Robert Boyle known for?

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*ideas about temperatures and the behavior of gases set the stage for modern chemistry

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What was William Harvey known for?

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*discovered how blood circulates

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Who is Antonie van Leeuwenhoek?

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*known for techniques for making lenses for microscopes

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Who is Isaac Newton and what is he known for?

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*invented calculus to test his gravity theory

*using his theory and calculus, demonstrated how the moon and planets move