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| What were the economic effects of the Crusades - how did the Crusades influence the Renaissance? |
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- Increased demand for Middle Eastern goods
- Stimulated (increased) production of goods to trade in Middle Eastern markets
- Encouraged use of credit and banking
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| Important economic concepts of the Renaissance: |
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- Church rule against usury (lending money) helped secularize northern Italy
- Letters of credit (borrowing money) helped expand supply of money and expedite (speed up) trade
- New accounting and bookkeeping practices (use of Arabic numerals) were introduced
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| Where did the Renaissance start? |
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| Northern Itlay (Florence, Venice, Genoa) |
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| Why was Northern Itlay so prosperous? |
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- Cities had access to trade routes connecting Europe to Middle Eastern markets
- Served as trading cetners for distribution of goods to northern Europe
- Independent city-states goverened by republics
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Written by Machiavelli - early modern treatise on government (guidebook for rulers)
- Supported aboslute power of ruler
- Ends justify the means
- Do good if possible, but evil when necessary
- Better to be feared than loved
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| How did Renaissance art differ from medieval art? |
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- Art in the Middle Ages focused on the Church and salvation (going to heaven)
- Renaissance art and literature focused on individuals and worldy (non-religious) matters, as well as Christianity
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Movement during the Renaissance that focused on and celebrated the individual
- Stimulated study of Greco-Roman literature and culture
- Supported by wealthy patrons
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| Why was the movable type printing press important? |
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| Allowed for the mass production and sale of books - spread ideas farther and faster |
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| Invented the movable type printing press |
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Painter, sculptor, engineer, inventer...
- Mona Lisa
- The Last Supper
- Notebooks contain designs, drawings, inventions...
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Painter/Sculptor from Florence
- David
- La Pieta
- Moses
- Ceiling of the Sistine Chapel (Separation of Light and Dark, Creation of Adam, Creation of Eve)
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Painter from Florence
- School of Athens
- Sistine Madonna
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| Known for his sonnets and humanist scholarship |
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| Growing wealth in Northern Europe supported Renaissance ideas - thinkers merged humanist ideas with Christianity |
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| Dutch humanist known for Praise of Folly - a satire making fun of corrupt leaders in the church and government |
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| Known for Utopia - about a perfect society ruled by reason and logic |
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| Leonardo da Vinci's notebooks |
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| David (from biblical story of David and Goliath)- Michelangelo (Florence) |
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| La Pieta (Virgin Mary holding body of crucified Jesus) - Michelangelo |
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| The Last Supper (shows Jesus's last supper before he is crucified) - Leonardo da Vinci |
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| Mona Lisa - Leonarda da Vinci |
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| School of Athens - Raphael (painted for Pope's room at Vatican) |
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| Ceiling of the Sistine Chapel at Vatican in Rome (shows stories from the Bible) - Michelangelo |
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| Sistine Madonna (shows Virgin Mary with baby Jesus) - Raphael |
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