History - The Renaissance Flashcards
What is the Renaissance
Renaissance means the of rebirth of learning. It was a big change that took place around the 15th and 16th century in Europe. The Renaissance marked the beginning of our modern world.
In the Renaissance, people’s ideas about art, architecture, science, medicine and religion had all changed and improved. The Renaissance began in the cities of northern Italy. These cities were very rich from trading with Asia. The nobles there wanted new things and new ideas.
Where is the birthplace of the Renaissance
The Renaissance began in the city states of northern Italy, especially Florence.
Why did the Renaissance take place
The princes who ruled in the city states of northern Italy (as well as many nobles and merchants) became very rich due to the extensive trading. Thus, they wanted to show their wealth and also wanted to have more beautiful homes, paintings, clothes, statues, jewelery and books (than the others).
So they paid artists, architects, jewelers, sculptors and scholars to do so for them.
The Renaissance mainly took place due to the display of such classical/artistic works.
About 1450 a _______ invented the _____ _________
German, printing press
What were the benefits of using the printing press
- The idea had spread quickly and now scholars could print books much more quickly and more cheaply than copying them by hand.
- More scholars could read about what the Greeks and Romans had thought.
- All over Europe people could read the ideas of the new scholars of Italy.
Many thinkers said that the Church was wrong to _________________________.
spend so much money on men and women who were dead
Why
This is because they thought that people who were alive were much more important and they said that life should be better for them.
Famous artists -
Raphael, Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci
In 1453 the Islamic Turks _________________
captured the Byzantine city of Constantinople
