Renaissance, Reformation, & Exploration 1400-1600 By Sam Irving Renaissance Defined BIG Idea: During the Renaissance, Western Europeans experienced a profound cultural awakening, signaling the beginning of modern times.

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Renaissance,
Reformation,
&
Exploration
1400-1600
By Sam Irving


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Renaissance Defined
BIG Idea: During the Renaissance,
Western Europeans experienced a
profound cultural awakening,
signaling the beginning of modern
times.


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Renaissance
:

Rebirth of interest in classical ideas
and cultures.
– What are the classical cultures?

 Ancient

Greek knowledge was
preserved in the Byzantine and Muslim
empires.


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Humanism

 Focused on Liberal Arts.
– Philosophy, History, Art, Literature
 Individualism:

emphasized the dignity
and worth of the individual.
– “Man is the measure of all things.”

– Renaissance Man: individual skilled in many areas.


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Was religion important in Medieval
life?

 Secular:

focus on worldly, not
religious themes.
– Laypeople, not monks, became the
leading intellectuals.
– Worldly immortality via art and
literature.


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Think back to our last unit.
What social changes occurred during
the late middle ages that broke down
feudalism?
 What specific event encouraged new
learning in Europe at the beginning of
the 13th Century (the 1200s)?



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Italy
 birthplace

of the Renaissance.

– Why?
 Geography

– At a trading crossroad
 Classical

past was visibly
present in Italy.


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New Social Order
 Upper:

merchants and bankers
replaced the landed nobility.
– Banking & checks replaced heavy coins.

 Middle:

shop-keepers and
artisans.

 Lower:

rural peasants and poor
urban workers.


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Assignment/Activity
No homework!


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Renaissance Masters &
Masterpieces


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A

return to Greek and Roman styles.


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Architecture

Brunelleschi’s Cathedral of Florence


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Michelangelo’s
“David”


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Painting
 Perspective,

giving depth.

 Emotions
 Frescos:

painting on damp plaster.


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Da Vinci’s “The Last Supper”


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Da Vinci’s
“Mona Lisa”


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Raphael’s “School of Athens”


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Michelangelo’s “Sistine Chapel”


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The Renaissance Man


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Activity
 Visit

the Irving Museum of
Renaissance Art.
– Look around and select your
favorite piece of Renaissance
artwork.
– Explain how it reflects Renaissance
themes and/or styles.
– Tell me why you like it.


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Renaissance Writing
 BIG

Idea: New printing technology
allowed Renaissance ideas to spread.


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 From

parchment, or animal skin, to
paper in 12th century Europe.
– From China


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A medieval book created by a monk.


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How did the moveable type printing press help the
Renaissance spread?


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The Printing Press
 Invented

by Johannes Gutenberg in
the 1450s.
 Used individual, moveable type.


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 Books

could be made cheaper and
faster, and thus became more
abundant in Europe.


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Literature
 Machiavelli

“The Prince”

– (We’ll read some of this.)

 William

Shakespeare


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Who’s this guy?


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ELT: Give examples of how philosophical
beliefs have influenced various aspects
of society throughout history.

Why are politicians lying liars?
Let’s take a look at The Prince by
Machiavelli.


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The Protestant Reformation
 BIG

Idea: In 16th
Century (1500s)
Germany, a desire
for church reform
led to a new form
of Christianity
called
Protestantism.


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What was religion like in medieval Europe?


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Martin Luther

 German

monk/professor

 Justification

by faith: Luther’s concept
that faith alone is enough to bring
salvation, or acceptance into heaven.


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What’s going on here?


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Luther’s Protest Against
 Indulgences:

certificates sold by the
Catholic Church to reduce or cancel
punishment for a person’s sin.


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Oct. 31st, 1517 Luther posts his 95 Theses.


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Luther’s 95 Theses (1517)
 Criticized

indulgences and other church
corruption.

 Copies

type.

spread fast due to movable

– Popular


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 Why

was Germany, or the Holy
Roman Empire, exceptional at this
time?
 How could this political landscape
have prevented the Holy Roman
Emperor from silencing Luther?


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“ I am bound by the Sacred Scriptures I have
cited…and my conscience is captive to the
Word of God. I cannot and will not recant
(take back) anything.”
– Martin Luther

 In

1521, the Pope excommunicates
Luther as a heretic.

Pope Leo X


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Luther’s other opinions
 Supported

hierarchy.

the feudal social

– Luther’s call for religious freedom
led to peasant calls for freedom
from feudalism.
– Lords violently put down peasant
revolts and Luther sided with the
lords.

 Virulent

anti-Semite

– Luther’s anti-Semitic writings were
reproduced by the Nazis.


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Lutheranism
 First

protestant faith.
 Bible as the only source of religious
truth.
– Readings during religious services.
– Catholicism stressed good works and
church rituals.


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Assignment
ELT: Give examples of how religion has
influenced aspects of society
throughout history.
 Let’s take a look at the 95 Theses.



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The Spread of
Protestantism

BIG Idea: The

Reformation spread
throughout Europe
(1500s) and began
to divide.


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Calvinism
Strict code of
conduct.
 All powerful, All
knowing God.


 Predestination:

God
determines the fate
of every person in
advance.


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What’s going on?


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Anabaptists


What does baptism symbolize?

 Only

baptized adults

– Free and informed decision
 Separation of church and state
– Fled to North America (1600s)
– Baptists, Mennonites, and Amish


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Anglicanism

(a.k.a. The Church of England)

Henry VIII split with the Catholic Church
when the pope refused him a divorce.
 A blend of Protestantism and Catholicism.



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The Catholic Reformation
 Council

of Trent 1545

 Ended

indulgences.

 Valued

sacraments and the bible.


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Bernini’s St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome


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Laocoon by El Greco


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Activity
ELT: Trace the history of how
principal world religions developed
and spread.
 Show me the religions of Europe
during the Renaissance geographically.


– Turn to page 424 in World History: The
Human Experience.


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In your journal, create and complete the chart
above. Enter someone of your choosing in the ? row
(you, a relative, etc.).


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Exploration
BIG Idea: 15th Century Europeans
sought a better trade route to Asia,
excluding Arab middlemen.


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Technology
 Educated

townspeople expanded
upon classical knowledge to improve
maps and ships.
– Cartographer: mapmaker
– Ptolemy’s Grid System


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Caravel
– Multiple-masts
– Triangular Sails
– Drew little water


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Portugal
 Vasco

da Gama
pioneered a water
route around
Africa to India.
–Direct route to
Asia
 Controlled the
spice trade.


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Spain
 Columbus

attempts to sail west across
the Atlantic to reach India.
 Reaches the Caribbean islands.


Amerigo Vespucci later suggests Columbus discovered
a “new world”


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Spanish Conquistadors
 Used

“Guns, Germs, and Steel” to
conquer Native Americans and
establish an empire.

,

,&


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 Hernán

Cortés conquered the Aztecs.

Cortés with Montezuma II


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 Francisco

Pizarro conquers the Inca.

Pizarro and Atahuallpa


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Columbian Exchange
 The

transatlantic exchange of plants,
animals, and diseases between
Europe, Africa, & Asia on one side,
and the Americas on the other
beginning in 1492.


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Columbian Exchange Flow Chart


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Slave Trade
 Empires

in the Americas used native,
then African slave labor to grow
crops.

 Purchased

from African merchants.

– Increased warfare and depopulation in
Africa.


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 Triangular:

between Europe, Africa,
and the Americas.


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 Est.

10-24 million enslaved Africans.
 1/5 died on the middle passage.


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Assignment/Activity


ELT: Analyze how forces of change
have influenced societies throughout
history.



Let’s learn more about the Columbian
Exchange from the leading scholar in
the field.


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Commerce in Europe (1600s)
 BIG

Idea: Overseas trade and the
conquest of empires expanded
Europe’s economy and formed the
roots of modern capitalism.


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Royal Power


Did more trade occur during the
Roman Empire or Feudal Europe? Why?

 Absolutism:

monarchs had unlimited

power.
 Divine Right: monarchs received their
power from God.


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Mercantilism

?
:

=

nations competed for wealth.

– Nations overpowered cities.
– Government banks replaced banking
families.
 Tried

to export more than they
imported.


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Commercial Revolution
 Growth

of entrepreneurs, or profitseeking business owners.
– A shift from the Guild mentality

 Joint-stock

company: many people
invested in an overseas venture.
– Shared the risks and profits.


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Demographic (Population) Changes
 Population doubled.
– From 55 million in 1450 to 100 million in
1650.
 Increased

Urbanization.

 Merchants (businesspeople)

Nobility declined.

prospered,


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Assignment


ELT: Describe characteristics of
specific economic systems and how
these systems have existed in
different ways at different times
throughout history.



Let’s take a closer look at Joint-Stock
Companies, the precursor to modernday corporations.


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