Exploring renaissance 1350-1650

- Began italy in 1350 ​why did it start in italy????

- Rebirth=renaissance
- Rebirth is thinking change
- Leaders looked for inspiration in Ancient Greece and Rome
- They discovered something lost for 1000 years
The background of the renaissance
- 120 ad
- The romans
- Romans lived in corruption because of barbaric tribes
After the romans
their civilized ways of life were gone

Christianity
- Many gods were forgotten
- Life was the doorway to heaven or hell
Castles and feudalism
- Military maintained peace for a while
- The serfs worked the nobleman's land for protection
The dawn of the renaissance
- florence, venice, siena, millan
- They wanted to come together and create a new society
- The church sold indulgences for money
- The leaders were called humanists
- Humans can affect things
- Humanists searched roman books
- They saw the human body as an obstacle and there were flat paintings
- Some artists painted lifelike portraits with depth, shading, perspective
- They figured out how to create 3d paintings using perspective

Architecture
- Ornate- ​detailed and designed
- In england houses
- In the new houses they had big windows
- There were statues of gods and goddesses
- Renaissance

Shakespeare
- The globe theatre
 - The plays were timeless
Science
- Galileo invented the telescope
- 1590 the microscope was invented in Holland
- The printing press
- People were able to connect to others
- Upper class and monks read books
- Books used to be handwritten
Exploration
- Christopher Columbus and accidentally “discovered” North and South
America 1492
- Ethnocentric​ how people view the world according to their religion
- Eurocentric- ​how people view the world through a european perspective
- British brought disease to North America
- They brought christianity to the americas
- 1570 martin luther
- reformation - broke up the church
- The power of kings increased and the pope's power decreased
- King henry the 8th made his own church
- Annulment​- cancellation of the marriage
- King henry made his own church and he was the head of it
- 1650
Age of Exploration

● 6 centuries ago
● People still thot the world was flat
● At the end of the 1400s geography advanced
● 1500 beginning-
Trade in the east
● The idea of being rich, came the idea of trading
● From red sea ports asian goods
● Italy is often regarded as the birth of the renaissance
● Spain and portugal wanted to bypass the muslims to trade with asia
● Spain and asia needed to advance sailing
● Henry the navigator​ studied the sea- he taught people how to navigate
● Astrolabe and the quadrant
● Carabel was a new ship
● Prince henry found shipyards to build ship
● His goal was to claim land, bring christianity, establish trade routes
● Altruism- doing things because it's the right things to do
● 1487 before the first europeans reached africa
● Vasco da Gama india
● Diaz reaches the tip of Africa 1487
● Cape of good hope is on the tip of africa
● Double edged sword- good and bad
● Buying and selling slaves
● Christopher columbus decided to sail west to get to asia
● He got to spain and asked king ferdinand and queen isabella they financed
his trip
● Patron- a supporter
● Grenada
● 1492 nina, pinta, santa maria columbus ships set off
- columbus’ first voyage 1492-1493
● 3 places in bc where the names of the places come from first nations
languages
● Maia people, inca, aztec
● Amerigo vespucci founded the americas 1499-1500
● Viking first reached the americas
● John cabot voyage 1498
● Canada, usa, denmark, russia, china- northwest passage
● Ferdinand magellan voyage
● He found the pacific ocean
● 1513-1522 cape horn
● Convention- tradition