Transcript Introduction: The Renaissance - Maestra Hortencia Tijerina Treviño
Slide 1
The Renaissance
History Class
Bilingual Project by:
Hortencia Tijerina Treviño
Introduction: The Renaissance
Main ideas:
Between 1350 and 1550, Italian
intellectuals believed they had entered a
new age of human achievement.
City-States were the centers of political,
economic, and social life in Renaissance
Italy.
The Renaissance
A number of people in Italy believed that they
had seen the rebirth of the ancient Greek and
Roman worlds. Historians call this period the
Renaissance, or Italian Renaissance.
The Renaissance
What are the most important characteristics
of the Italian Renaissance?
The Renaissance
Powerful city-states became centers of Italian
political, economic, and social life.
The Renaissance was an age of recovery from
the disasters like the plague, political instability,
and a decline of Church power.
Renaissance began to
emphasize individual ability.
Leonardo da Vinci, for example,
was a painter, sculptor, architect,
inventor, and mathematician.
The Renaissance
The city-states expanded and
played
important
roles.
The Renaissance
The Italian states had problems and made
alliances with France and Spain. Finally, France
and Spain wanted to control Italy. The Italian
Wars lasted 65 years from 1494 to 1559.
The Renaissance
Niccolò Machiavelli wrote the book The Prince.
This book describes how to acquire and keep
political power. Machiavelli abandoned morality to
analyze the political activity.
The Renaissance
Society was divided into
social classes: nobility, peasants,
townspeople, clergy, and
merchants.
The Renaissance
Parents arranged
marriages.
The father was the center
of the Italian family and
he controlled all finances.
Children became adults
when the father died or
went before a judge and
freed them.
Slide 2
The Renaissance
History Class
Bilingual Project by:
Hortencia Tijerina Treviño
Introduction: The Renaissance
Main ideas:
Between 1350 and 1550, Italian
intellectuals believed they had entered a
new age of human achievement.
City-States were the centers of political,
economic, and social life in Renaissance
Italy.
The Renaissance
A number of people in Italy believed that they
had seen the rebirth of the ancient Greek and
Roman worlds. Historians call this period the
Renaissance, or Italian Renaissance.
The Renaissance
What are the most important characteristics
of the Italian Renaissance?
The Renaissance
Powerful city-states became centers of Italian
political, economic, and social life.
The Renaissance was an age of recovery from
the disasters like the plague, political instability,
and a decline of Church power.
Renaissance began to
emphasize individual ability.
Leonardo da Vinci, for example,
was a painter, sculptor, architect,
inventor, and mathematician.
The Renaissance
The city-states expanded and
played
important
roles.
The Renaissance
The Italian states had problems and made
alliances with France and Spain. Finally, France
and Spain wanted to control Italy. The Italian
Wars lasted 65 years from 1494 to 1559.
The Renaissance
Niccolò Machiavelli wrote the book The Prince.
This book describes how to acquire and keep
political power. Machiavelli abandoned morality to
analyze the political activity.
The Renaissance
Society was divided into
social classes: nobility, peasants,
townspeople, clergy, and
merchants.
The Renaissance
Parents arranged
marriages.
The father was the center
of the Italian family and
he controlled all finances.
Children became adults
when the father died or
went before a judge and
freed them.
Slide 3
The Renaissance
History Class
Bilingual Project by:
Hortencia Tijerina Treviño
Introduction: The Renaissance
Main ideas:
Between 1350 and 1550, Italian
intellectuals believed they had entered a
new age of human achievement.
City-States were the centers of political,
economic, and social life in Renaissance
Italy.
The Renaissance
A number of people in Italy believed that they
had seen the rebirth of the ancient Greek and
Roman worlds. Historians call this period the
Renaissance, or Italian Renaissance.
The Renaissance
What are the most important characteristics
of the Italian Renaissance?
The Renaissance
Powerful city-states became centers of Italian
political, economic, and social life.
The Renaissance was an age of recovery from
the disasters like the plague, political instability,
and a decline of Church power.
Renaissance began to
emphasize individual ability.
Leonardo da Vinci, for example,
was a painter, sculptor, architect,
inventor, and mathematician.
The Renaissance
The city-states expanded and
played
important
roles.
The Renaissance
The Italian states had problems and made
alliances with France and Spain. Finally, France
and Spain wanted to control Italy. The Italian
Wars lasted 65 years from 1494 to 1559.
The Renaissance
Niccolò Machiavelli wrote the book The Prince.
This book describes how to acquire and keep
political power. Machiavelli abandoned morality to
analyze the political activity.
The Renaissance
Society was divided into
social classes: nobility, peasants,
townspeople, clergy, and
merchants.
The Renaissance
Parents arranged
marriages.
The father was the center
of the Italian family and
he controlled all finances.
Children became adults
when the father died or
went before a judge and
freed them.
Slide 4
The Renaissance
History Class
Bilingual Project by:
Hortencia Tijerina Treviño
Introduction: The Renaissance
Main ideas:
Between 1350 and 1550, Italian
intellectuals believed they had entered a
new age of human achievement.
City-States were the centers of political,
economic, and social life in Renaissance
Italy.
The Renaissance
A number of people in Italy believed that they
had seen the rebirth of the ancient Greek and
Roman worlds. Historians call this period the
Renaissance, or Italian Renaissance.
The Renaissance
What are the most important characteristics
of the Italian Renaissance?
The Renaissance
Powerful city-states became centers of Italian
political, economic, and social life.
The Renaissance was an age of recovery from
the disasters like the plague, political instability,
and a decline of Church power.
Renaissance began to
emphasize individual ability.
Leonardo da Vinci, for example,
was a painter, sculptor, architect,
inventor, and mathematician.
The Renaissance
The city-states expanded and
played
important
roles.
The Renaissance
The Italian states had problems and made
alliances with France and Spain. Finally, France
and Spain wanted to control Italy. The Italian
Wars lasted 65 years from 1494 to 1559.
The Renaissance
Niccolò Machiavelli wrote the book The Prince.
This book describes how to acquire and keep
political power. Machiavelli abandoned morality to
analyze the political activity.
The Renaissance
Society was divided into
social classes: nobility, peasants,
townspeople, clergy, and
merchants.
The Renaissance
Parents arranged
marriages.
The father was the center
of the Italian family and
he controlled all finances.
Children became adults
when the father died or
went before a judge and
freed them.
Slide 5
The Renaissance
History Class
Bilingual Project by:
Hortencia Tijerina Treviño
Introduction: The Renaissance
Main ideas:
Between 1350 and 1550, Italian
intellectuals believed they had entered a
new age of human achievement.
City-States were the centers of political,
economic, and social life in Renaissance
Italy.
The Renaissance
A number of people in Italy believed that they
had seen the rebirth of the ancient Greek and
Roman worlds. Historians call this period the
Renaissance, or Italian Renaissance.
The Renaissance
What are the most important characteristics
of the Italian Renaissance?
The Renaissance
Powerful city-states became centers of Italian
political, economic, and social life.
The Renaissance was an age of recovery from
the disasters like the plague, political instability,
and a decline of Church power.
Renaissance began to
emphasize individual ability.
Leonardo da Vinci, for example,
was a painter, sculptor, architect,
inventor, and mathematician.
The Renaissance
The city-states expanded and
played
important
roles.
The Renaissance
The Italian states had problems and made
alliances with France and Spain. Finally, France
and Spain wanted to control Italy. The Italian
Wars lasted 65 years from 1494 to 1559.
The Renaissance
Niccolò Machiavelli wrote the book The Prince.
This book describes how to acquire and keep
political power. Machiavelli abandoned morality to
analyze the political activity.
The Renaissance
Society was divided into
social classes: nobility, peasants,
townspeople, clergy, and
merchants.
The Renaissance
Parents arranged
marriages.
The father was the center
of the Italian family and
he controlled all finances.
Children became adults
when the father died or
went before a judge and
freed them.
Slide 6
The Renaissance
History Class
Bilingual Project by:
Hortencia Tijerina Treviño
Introduction: The Renaissance
Main ideas:
Between 1350 and 1550, Italian
intellectuals believed they had entered a
new age of human achievement.
City-States were the centers of political,
economic, and social life in Renaissance
Italy.
The Renaissance
A number of people in Italy believed that they
had seen the rebirth of the ancient Greek and
Roman worlds. Historians call this period the
Renaissance, or Italian Renaissance.
The Renaissance
What are the most important characteristics
of the Italian Renaissance?
The Renaissance
Powerful city-states became centers of Italian
political, economic, and social life.
The Renaissance was an age of recovery from
the disasters like the plague, political instability,
and a decline of Church power.
Renaissance began to
emphasize individual ability.
Leonardo da Vinci, for example,
was a painter, sculptor, architect,
inventor, and mathematician.
The Renaissance
The city-states expanded and
played
important
roles.
The Renaissance
The Italian states had problems and made
alliances with France and Spain. Finally, France
and Spain wanted to control Italy. The Italian
Wars lasted 65 years from 1494 to 1559.
The Renaissance
Niccolò Machiavelli wrote the book The Prince.
This book describes how to acquire and keep
political power. Machiavelli abandoned morality to
analyze the political activity.
The Renaissance
Society was divided into
social classes: nobility, peasants,
townspeople, clergy, and
merchants.
The Renaissance
Parents arranged
marriages.
The father was the center
of the Italian family and
he controlled all finances.
Children became adults
when the father died or
went before a judge and
freed them.
Slide 7
The Renaissance
History Class
Bilingual Project by:
Hortencia Tijerina Treviño
Introduction: The Renaissance
Main ideas:
Between 1350 and 1550, Italian
intellectuals believed they had entered a
new age of human achievement.
City-States were the centers of political,
economic, and social life in Renaissance
Italy.
The Renaissance
A number of people in Italy believed that they
had seen the rebirth of the ancient Greek and
Roman worlds. Historians call this period the
Renaissance, or Italian Renaissance.
The Renaissance
What are the most important characteristics
of the Italian Renaissance?
The Renaissance
Powerful city-states became centers of Italian
political, economic, and social life.
The Renaissance was an age of recovery from
the disasters like the plague, political instability,
and a decline of Church power.
Renaissance began to
emphasize individual ability.
Leonardo da Vinci, for example,
was a painter, sculptor, architect,
inventor, and mathematician.
The Renaissance
The city-states expanded and
played
important
roles.
The Renaissance
The Italian states had problems and made
alliances with France and Spain. Finally, France
and Spain wanted to control Italy. The Italian
Wars lasted 65 years from 1494 to 1559.
The Renaissance
Niccolò Machiavelli wrote the book The Prince.
This book describes how to acquire and keep
political power. Machiavelli abandoned morality to
analyze the political activity.
The Renaissance
Society was divided into
social classes: nobility, peasants,
townspeople, clergy, and
merchants.
The Renaissance
Parents arranged
marriages.
The father was the center
of the Italian family and
he controlled all finances.
Children became adults
when the father died or
went before a judge and
freed them.
Slide 8
The Renaissance
History Class
Bilingual Project by:
Hortencia Tijerina Treviño
Introduction: The Renaissance
Main ideas:
Between 1350 and 1550, Italian
intellectuals believed they had entered a
new age of human achievement.
City-States were the centers of political,
economic, and social life in Renaissance
Italy.
The Renaissance
A number of people in Italy believed that they
had seen the rebirth of the ancient Greek and
Roman worlds. Historians call this period the
Renaissance, or Italian Renaissance.
The Renaissance
What are the most important characteristics
of the Italian Renaissance?
The Renaissance
Powerful city-states became centers of Italian
political, economic, and social life.
The Renaissance was an age of recovery from
the disasters like the plague, political instability,
and a decline of Church power.
Renaissance began to
emphasize individual ability.
Leonardo da Vinci, for example,
was a painter, sculptor, architect,
inventor, and mathematician.
The Renaissance
The city-states expanded and
played
important
roles.
The Renaissance
The Italian states had problems and made
alliances with France and Spain. Finally, France
and Spain wanted to control Italy. The Italian
Wars lasted 65 years from 1494 to 1559.
The Renaissance
Niccolò Machiavelli wrote the book The Prince.
This book describes how to acquire and keep
political power. Machiavelli abandoned morality to
analyze the political activity.
The Renaissance
Society was divided into
social classes: nobility, peasants,
townspeople, clergy, and
merchants.
The Renaissance
Parents arranged
marriages.
The father was the center
of the Italian family and
he controlled all finances.
Children became adults
when the father died or
went before a judge and
freed them.
Slide 9
The Renaissance
History Class
Bilingual Project by:
Hortencia Tijerina Treviño
Introduction: The Renaissance
Main ideas:
Between 1350 and 1550, Italian
intellectuals believed they had entered a
new age of human achievement.
City-States were the centers of political,
economic, and social life in Renaissance
Italy.
The Renaissance
A number of people in Italy believed that they
had seen the rebirth of the ancient Greek and
Roman worlds. Historians call this period the
Renaissance, or Italian Renaissance.
The Renaissance
What are the most important characteristics
of the Italian Renaissance?
The Renaissance
Powerful city-states became centers of Italian
political, economic, and social life.
The Renaissance was an age of recovery from
the disasters like the plague, political instability,
and a decline of Church power.
Renaissance began to
emphasize individual ability.
Leonardo da Vinci, for example,
was a painter, sculptor, architect,
inventor, and mathematician.
The Renaissance
The city-states expanded and
played
important
roles.
The Renaissance
The Italian states had problems and made
alliances with France and Spain. Finally, France
and Spain wanted to control Italy. The Italian
Wars lasted 65 years from 1494 to 1559.
The Renaissance
Niccolò Machiavelli wrote the book The Prince.
This book describes how to acquire and keep
political power. Machiavelli abandoned morality to
analyze the political activity.
The Renaissance
Society was divided into
social classes: nobility, peasants,
townspeople, clergy, and
merchants.
The Renaissance
Parents arranged
marriages.
The father was the center
of the Italian family and
he controlled all finances.
Children became adults
when the father died or
went before a judge and
freed them.
Slide 10
The Renaissance
History Class
Bilingual Project by:
Hortencia Tijerina Treviño
Introduction: The Renaissance
Main ideas:
Between 1350 and 1550, Italian
intellectuals believed they had entered a
new age of human achievement.
City-States were the centers of political,
economic, and social life in Renaissance
Italy.
The Renaissance
A number of people in Italy believed that they
had seen the rebirth of the ancient Greek and
Roman worlds. Historians call this period the
Renaissance, or Italian Renaissance.
The Renaissance
What are the most important characteristics
of the Italian Renaissance?
The Renaissance
Powerful city-states became centers of Italian
political, economic, and social life.
The Renaissance was an age of recovery from
the disasters like the plague, political instability,
and a decline of Church power.
Renaissance began to
emphasize individual ability.
Leonardo da Vinci, for example,
was a painter, sculptor, architect,
inventor, and mathematician.
The Renaissance
The city-states expanded and
played
important
roles.
The Renaissance
The Italian states had problems and made
alliances with France and Spain. Finally, France
and Spain wanted to control Italy. The Italian
Wars lasted 65 years from 1494 to 1559.
The Renaissance
Niccolò Machiavelli wrote the book The Prince.
This book describes how to acquire and keep
political power. Machiavelli abandoned morality to
analyze the political activity.
The Renaissance
Society was divided into
social classes: nobility, peasants,
townspeople, clergy, and
merchants.
The Renaissance
Parents arranged
marriages.
The father was the center
of the Italian family and
he controlled all finances.
Children became adults
when the father died or
went before a judge and
freed them.
The Renaissance
History Class
Bilingual Project by:
Hortencia Tijerina Treviño
Introduction: The Renaissance
Main ideas:
Between 1350 and 1550, Italian
intellectuals believed they had entered a
new age of human achievement.
City-States were the centers of political,
economic, and social life in Renaissance
Italy.
The Renaissance
A number of people in Italy believed that they
had seen the rebirth of the ancient Greek and
Roman worlds. Historians call this period the
Renaissance, or Italian Renaissance.
The Renaissance
What are the most important characteristics
of the Italian Renaissance?
The Renaissance
Powerful city-states became centers of Italian
political, economic, and social life.
The Renaissance was an age of recovery from
the disasters like the plague, political instability,
and a decline of Church power.
Renaissance began to
emphasize individual ability.
Leonardo da Vinci, for example,
was a painter, sculptor, architect,
inventor, and mathematician.
The Renaissance
The city-states expanded and
played
important
roles.
The Renaissance
The Italian states had problems and made
alliances with France and Spain. Finally, France
and Spain wanted to control Italy. The Italian
Wars lasted 65 years from 1494 to 1559.
The Renaissance
Niccolò Machiavelli wrote the book The Prince.
This book describes how to acquire and keep
political power. Machiavelli abandoned morality to
analyze the political activity.
The Renaissance
Society was divided into
social classes: nobility, peasants,
townspeople, clergy, and
merchants.
The Renaissance
Parents arranged
marriages.
The father was the center
of the Italian family and
he controlled all finances.
Children became adults
when the father died or
went before a judge and
freed them.
Slide 2
The Renaissance
History Class
Bilingual Project by:
Hortencia Tijerina Treviño
Introduction: The Renaissance
Main ideas:
Between 1350 and 1550, Italian
intellectuals believed they had entered a
new age of human achievement.
City-States were the centers of political,
economic, and social life in Renaissance
Italy.
The Renaissance
A number of people in Italy believed that they
had seen the rebirth of the ancient Greek and
Roman worlds. Historians call this period the
Renaissance, or Italian Renaissance.
The Renaissance
What are the most important characteristics
of the Italian Renaissance?
The Renaissance
Powerful city-states became centers of Italian
political, economic, and social life.
The Renaissance was an age of recovery from
the disasters like the plague, political instability,
and a decline of Church power.
Renaissance began to
emphasize individual ability.
Leonardo da Vinci, for example,
was a painter, sculptor, architect,
inventor, and mathematician.
The Renaissance
The city-states expanded and
played
important
roles.
The Renaissance
The Italian states had problems and made
alliances with France and Spain. Finally, France
and Spain wanted to control Italy. The Italian
Wars lasted 65 years from 1494 to 1559.
The Renaissance
Niccolò Machiavelli wrote the book The Prince.
This book describes how to acquire and keep
political power. Machiavelli abandoned morality to
analyze the political activity.
The Renaissance
Society was divided into
social classes: nobility, peasants,
townspeople, clergy, and
merchants.
The Renaissance
Parents arranged
marriages.
The father was the center
of the Italian family and
he controlled all finances.
Children became adults
when the father died or
went before a judge and
freed them.
Slide 3
The Renaissance
History Class
Bilingual Project by:
Hortencia Tijerina Treviño
Introduction: The Renaissance
Main ideas:
Between 1350 and 1550, Italian
intellectuals believed they had entered a
new age of human achievement.
City-States were the centers of political,
economic, and social life in Renaissance
Italy.
The Renaissance
A number of people in Italy believed that they
had seen the rebirth of the ancient Greek and
Roman worlds. Historians call this period the
Renaissance, or Italian Renaissance.
The Renaissance
What are the most important characteristics
of the Italian Renaissance?
The Renaissance
Powerful city-states became centers of Italian
political, economic, and social life.
The Renaissance was an age of recovery from
the disasters like the plague, political instability,
and a decline of Church power.
Renaissance began to
emphasize individual ability.
Leonardo da Vinci, for example,
was a painter, sculptor, architect,
inventor, and mathematician.
The Renaissance
The city-states expanded and
played
important
roles.
The Renaissance
The Italian states had problems and made
alliances with France and Spain. Finally, France
and Spain wanted to control Italy. The Italian
Wars lasted 65 years from 1494 to 1559.
The Renaissance
Niccolò Machiavelli wrote the book The Prince.
This book describes how to acquire and keep
political power. Machiavelli abandoned morality to
analyze the political activity.
The Renaissance
Society was divided into
social classes: nobility, peasants,
townspeople, clergy, and
merchants.
The Renaissance
Parents arranged
marriages.
The father was the center
of the Italian family and
he controlled all finances.
Children became adults
when the father died or
went before a judge and
freed them.
Slide 4
The Renaissance
History Class
Bilingual Project by:
Hortencia Tijerina Treviño
Introduction: The Renaissance
Main ideas:
Between 1350 and 1550, Italian
intellectuals believed they had entered a
new age of human achievement.
City-States were the centers of political,
economic, and social life in Renaissance
Italy.
The Renaissance
A number of people in Italy believed that they
had seen the rebirth of the ancient Greek and
Roman worlds. Historians call this period the
Renaissance, or Italian Renaissance.
The Renaissance
What are the most important characteristics
of the Italian Renaissance?
The Renaissance
Powerful city-states became centers of Italian
political, economic, and social life.
The Renaissance was an age of recovery from
the disasters like the plague, political instability,
and a decline of Church power.
Renaissance began to
emphasize individual ability.
Leonardo da Vinci, for example,
was a painter, sculptor, architect,
inventor, and mathematician.
The Renaissance
The city-states expanded and
played
important
roles.
The Renaissance
The Italian states had problems and made
alliances with France and Spain. Finally, France
and Spain wanted to control Italy. The Italian
Wars lasted 65 years from 1494 to 1559.
The Renaissance
Niccolò Machiavelli wrote the book The Prince.
This book describes how to acquire and keep
political power. Machiavelli abandoned morality to
analyze the political activity.
The Renaissance
Society was divided into
social classes: nobility, peasants,
townspeople, clergy, and
merchants.
The Renaissance
Parents arranged
marriages.
The father was the center
of the Italian family and
he controlled all finances.
Children became adults
when the father died or
went before a judge and
freed them.
Slide 5
The Renaissance
History Class
Bilingual Project by:
Hortencia Tijerina Treviño
Introduction: The Renaissance
Main ideas:
Between 1350 and 1550, Italian
intellectuals believed they had entered a
new age of human achievement.
City-States were the centers of political,
economic, and social life in Renaissance
Italy.
The Renaissance
A number of people in Italy believed that they
had seen the rebirth of the ancient Greek and
Roman worlds. Historians call this period the
Renaissance, or Italian Renaissance.
The Renaissance
What are the most important characteristics
of the Italian Renaissance?
The Renaissance
Powerful city-states became centers of Italian
political, economic, and social life.
The Renaissance was an age of recovery from
the disasters like the plague, political instability,
and a decline of Church power.
Renaissance began to
emphasize individual ability.
Leonardo da Vinci, for example,
was a painter, sculptor, architect,
inventor, and mathematician.
The Renaissance
The city-states expanded and
played
important
roles.
The Renaissance
The Italian states had problems and made
alliances with France and Spain. Finally, France
and Spain wanted to control Italy. The Italian
Wars lasted 65 years from 1494 to 1559.
The Renaissance
Niccolò Machiavelli wrote the book The Prince.
This book describes how to acquire and keep
political power. Machiavelli abandoned morality to
analyze the political activity.
The Renaissance
Society was divided into
social classes: nobility, peasants,
townspeople, clergy, and
merchants.
The Renaissance
Parents arranged
marriages.
The father was the center
of the Italian family and
he controlled all finances.
Children became adults
when the father died or
went before a judge and
freed them.
Slide 6
The Renaissance
History Class
Bilingual Project by:
Hortencia Tijerina Treviño
Introduction: The Renaissance
Main ideas:
Between 1350 and 1550, Italian
intellectuals believed they had entered a
new age of human achievement.
City-States were the centers of political,
economic, and social life in Renaissance
Italy.
The Renaissance
A number of people in Italy believed that they
had seen the rebirth of the ancient Greek and
Roman worlds. Historians call this period the
Renaissance, or Italian Renaissance.
The Renaissance
What are the most important characteristics
of the Italian Renaissance?
The Renaissance
Powerful city-states became centers of Italian
political, economic, and social life.
The Renaissance was an age of recovery from
the disasters like the plague, political instability,
and a decline of Church power.
Renaissance began to
emphasize individual ability.
Leonardo da Vinci, for example,
was a painter, sculptor, architect,
inventor, and mathematician.
The Renaissance
The city-states expanded and
played
important
roles.
The Renaissance
The Italian states had problems and made
alliances with France and Spain. Finally, France
and Spain wanted to control Italy. The Italian
Wars lasted 65 years from 1494 to 1559.
The Renaissance
Niccolò Machiavelli wrote the book The Prince.
This book describes how to acquire and keep
political power. Machiavelli abandoned morality to
analyze the political activity.
The Renaissance
Society was divided into
social classes: nobility, peasants,
townspeople, clergy, and
merchants.
The Renaissance
Parents arranged
marriages.
The father was the center
of the Italian family and
he controlled all finances.
Children became adults
when the father died or
went before a judge and
freed them.
Slide 7
The Renaissance
History Class
Bilingual Project by:
Hortencia Tijerina Treviño
Introduction: The Renaissance
Main ideas:
Between 1350 and 1550, Italian
intellectuals believed they had entered a
new age of human achievement.
City-States were the centers of political,
economic, and social life in Renaissance
Italy.
The Renaissance
A number of people in Italy believed that they
had seen the rebirth of the ancient Greek and
Roman worlds. Historians call this period the
Renaissance, or Italian Renaissance.
The Renaissance
What are the most important characteristics
of the Italian Renaissance?
The Renaissance
Powerful city-states became centers of Italian
political, economic, and social life.
The Renaissance was an age of recovery from
the disasters like the plague, political instability,
and a decline of Church power.
Renaissance began to
emphasize individual ability.
Leonardo da Vinci, for example,
was a painter, sculptor, architect,
inventor, and mathematician.
The Renaissance
The city-states expanded and
played
important
roles.
The Renaissance
The Italian states had problems and made
alliances with France and Spain. Finally, France
and Spain wanted to control Italy. The Italian
Wars lasted 65 years from 1494 to 1559.
The Renaissance
Niccolò Machiavelli wrote the book The Prince.
This book describes how to acquire and keep
political power. Machiavelli abandoned morality to
analyze the political activity.
The Renaissance
Society was divided into
social classes: nobility, peasants,
townspeople, clergy, and
merchants.
The Renaissance
Parents arranged
marriages.
The father was the center
of the Italian family and
he controlled all finances.
Children became adults
when the father died or
went before a judge and
freed them.
Slide 8
The Renaissance
History Class
Bilingual Project by:
Hortencia Tijerina Treviño
Introduction: The Renaissance
Main ideas:
Between 1350 and 1550, Italian
intellectuals believed they had entered a
new age of human achievement.
City-States were the centers of political,
economic, and social life in Renaissance
Italy.
The Renaissance
A number of people in Italy believed that they
had seen the rebirth of the ancient Greek and
Roman worlds. Historians call this period the
Renaissance, or Italian Renaissance.
The Renaissance
What are the most important characteristics
of the Italian Renaissance?
The Renaissance
Powerful city-states became centers of Italian
political, economic, and social life.
The Renaissance was an age of recovery from
the disasters like the plague, political instability,
and a decline of Church power.
Renaissance began to
emphasize individual ability.
Leonardo da Vinci, for example,
was a painter, sculptor, architect,
inventor, and mathematician.
The Renaissance
The city-states expanded and
played
important
roles.
The Renaissance
The Italian states had problems and made
alliances with France and Spain. Finally, France
and Spain wanted to control Italy. The Italian
Wars lasted 65 years from 1494 to 1559.
The Renaissance
Niccolò Machiavelli wrote the book The Prince.
This book describes how to acquire and keep
political power. Machiavelli abandoned morality to
analyze the political activity.
The Renaissance
Society was divided into
social classes: nobility, peasants,
townspeople, clergy, and
merchants.
The Renaissance
Parents arranged
marriages.
The father was the center
of the Italian family and
he controlled all finances.
Children became adults
when the father died or
went before a judge and
freed them.
Slide 9
The Renaissance
History Class
Bilingual Project by:
Hortencia Tijerina Treviño
Introduction: The Renaissance
Main ideas:
Between 1350 and 1550, Italian
intellectuals believed they had entered a
new age of human achievement.
City-States were the centers of political,
economic, and social life in Renaissance
Italy.
The Renaissance
A number of people in Italy believed that they
had seen the rebirth of the ancient Greek and
Roman worlds. Historians call this period the
Renaissance, or Italian Renaissance.
The Renaissance
What are the most important characteristics
of the Italian Renaissance?
The Renaissance
Powerful city-states became centers of Italian
political, economic, and social life.
The Renaissance was an age of recovery from
the disasters like the plague, political instability,
and a decline of Church power.
Renaissance began to
emphasize individual ability.
Leonardo da Vinci, for example,
was a painter, sculptor, architect,
inventor, and mathematician.
The Renaissance
The city-states expanded and
played
important
roles.
The Renaissance
The Italian states had problems and made
alliances with France and Spain. Finally, France
and Spain wanted to control Italy. The Italian
Wars lasted 65 years from 1494 to 1559.
The Renaissance
Niccolò Machiavelli wrote the book The Prince.
This book describes how to acquire and keep
political power. Machiavelli abandoned morality to
analyze the political activity.
The Renaissance
Society was divided into
social classes: nobility, peasants,
townspeople, clergy, and
merchants.
The Renaissance
Parents arranged
marriages.
The father was the center
of the Italian family and
he controlled all finances.
Children became adults
when the father died or
went before a judge and
freed them.
Slide 10
The Renaissance
History Class
Bilingual Project by:
Hortencia Tijerina Treviño
Introduction: The Renaissance
Main ideas:
Between 1350 and 1550, Italian
intellectuals believed they had entered a
new age of human achievement.
City-States were the centers of political,
economic, and social life in Renaissance
Italy.
The Renaissance
A number of people in Italy believed that they
had seen the rebirth of the ancient Greek and
Roman worlds. Historians call this period the
Renaissance, or Italian Renaissance.
The Renaissance
What are the most important characteristics
of the Italian Renaissance?
The Renaissance
Powerful city-states became centers of Italian
political, economic, and social life.
The Renaissance was an age of recovery from
the disasters like the plague, political instability,
and a decline of Church power.
Renaissance began to
emphasize individual ability.
Leonardo da Vinci, for example,
was a painter, sculptor, architect,
inventor, and mathematician.
The Renaissance
The city-states expanded and
played
important
roles.
The Renaissance
The Italian states had problems and made
alliances with France and Spain. Finally, France
and Spain wanted to control Italy. The Italian
Wars lasted 65 years from 1494 to 1559.
The Renaissance
Niccolò Machiavelli wrote the book The Prince.
This book describes how to acquire and keep
political power. Machiavelli abandoned morality to
analyze the political activity.
The Renaissance
Society was divided into
social classes: nobility, peasants,
townspeople, clergy, and
merchants.
The Renaissance
Parents arranged
marriages.
The father was the center
of the Italian family and
he controlled all finances.
Children became adults
when the father died or
went before a judge and
freed them.