power point in world history II

1. RENAISSANCE
MA. CAROLINE A. SANDIQUE
BSED II-F

2. THE RENAISSANCE BRINGS CHANGE:
 EUROPEAN RULERS GAINED NEW
AUTHORITY
 ABSOLUTE AUTHORITY OF THE CHURCH
BEGAN TO BE QUESTIONED.
 LONG PERIOD OF WARS, EPIDEMICS
AND ECONOMIC UPHEAVAL CAME TO
END.
 NEW SPIRIT OF OPTIMISM AND
CONFIDENCE AND CREATIVITY
EMERGED.

3. CLASSICAL LEARNING INSPIRES RENAISSANCE:

4. RENAISSANCE:
 REBIRTH
 1300’s
 ARTS
 INTELLECTUAL LIFE
 WAYS VIEWING THE WORLD
 14th TO 16TH CENTURY

5. RENAISSANCE DIFFERED FROM THE MIDDLE
AGES IN SEVERAL WAYS:
 RENEWED APPRECIATION FOR ARTS
AND LEARNING ANCIENT GREECE AND
ROME
 NEW INTERESTING WORLDLY
MATTERS
 EMPHASIS ON HUMAN LIFE

6. ITALY

7.  FRANCESCO PETRARCH
 ITALIAN POET
 1304
 LED THE RENAISSANCE HUMANISM
 “NOTHING WEIGHS LESS THAN A PEN”

8. POLITICS IN RENAISSANCE:
 GREEKS AND ROMANS VALUED PUBLIC
SERVICE
 PRAISED THOSE WHO WERE USEFUL TO
SOCIETY

9.  NICCOLLO MACHIAVELLI
 DIPLOMAT AND STUDENT OF POLITICS
 THE PRINCE

10. WEALTHY PATRONS SUPPORT THE
RENAISSANCE

11. FLORENCE:
 CULTURAL CENTER OF RENAISSANCE
ITALY

12. MEDICI
 ACTIVE IN POLITICS
 BANKERS WHO HAD BRANCH OFFICES
THROUGH OUT WESTERN EUROPE

13.  LORENZO
 1449-1492
 “THE MAGNIFICENT”
 TALENTED POET

14.  ISABELLA D’ESTE
 1470-1539
 FIRST WOMAN OF THE WORLD

15. PRINTING PRESS RENAISSANCE

16. 1450’S:
 EUROPEAN FIRST USED MOVABLE
METAL TYPE TO PRINT A BOOK

17.  JOHANN GUTENBERG
 CREDITED WITH PRINTING THE FIRST
BOOK

18. RENAISSANCE IDEAS SPREAD
NORTHERN EUROPE

19.  DESIDERIUS ERASMUS
 1466
 ROTTERDAM, HOLAND
 STUDIED HUMANITIES AND CHRISTIAN
DOCTRINES

20. THE PRAISE OF FOLLY:
 ERASMUS CRITICIZED THE SCHOLARS,
SCIENTIST, PHILOSOPHERS AND
CLERGY

21.  SIR THOMAS MORE
 ENGLISH STATES MAN
 ERASMUS’ CLOSE FRIEND
 UTOPIA

22. REFERENCES:
 Marvin Perry, A World of History, Houghton
Mifflin Company, 325-326pp.
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