History - The Renaissance and Why it Took Place 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.
In the mid 15h century came the great change in learning, painting, sculpture, books, science, medicine, mathematics, building and the whole way of life. It was also the beginning of a great quarrel in the Christian Church called the Reformation. This split the Western Church into two parts: Catholic and Protestant. The Renaissance was the beginning of the modern world
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 ___________________. The _________ scholars there had always ______________________________. Now they left Constantinople to get away from the Turks. They went to Italy and took with them _______________ and _________________. The arab scholars had copied many greek books abt medicine and science and had written more of their own of their own. The scholars in the West suddenly had many more books to study. As they read, they found out that _________________________.
captured the Byzantine city of Constantinople, Christian, studied some of the old Greek books, the ancient papers, many Arab books, many of the things they believed seemed to be wrong.
The cities of northern Italy were the great trading towns of the Middle Ages. The silks and spices from the East came to Italy to be sent on to the rest of Europe. The princes who ruled the city states and many of the nobles and merchants who lived in them became very rich indeed. They wanted to show how rich they were, and to have more beautiful homes, paintings, clothes, statues, jewellery and books than the others. They paid artists, architects, jewellers, sculptors and scholars to do this for them.
