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Copy Down Vocabulary (2.1)• Renaissance – rebirth in art,
writing, architecture, and culture• Individualism – being independent
and having freedom to make choices• Secularism – concerned with
worldly rather than spiritual matters• Realism – showing life how it
actually is• Humanism – focusing on human
potential and achievement
What was the Renaissance?
• Renaissance means “rebirth”• There was a rebirth in Greek and
Roman culture, art, and architecture throughout Europe.
• More Individualism, Secularism, Humanism
Cause 1 - Fall of Constantinople• 1453 – the city of Constantinople is
taken over by the Ottomans• Ends the Byzantine Empire (Roman)
Scholars Flee to Italy• After the fall of Constantinople,
the Byzantine scholars fled to Italy–They brought the Greek and Roman
ideas, art, and writing with them
New Ideas, Art, and Writing
• These Greek/Roman (Classical) ideas lay the foundation for the Renaissance
• Gradually, people will begin to apply these ideas and art to their own culture
Cause 2 - Trade• Trade from Asia moves through
the Middle East and up into Italy• Italian cities such as Florence
become the center of trade
Ideas move with Trade
• New ways of thinking on religion, people, and art travel with trade
• Trade means greater diversity and individualism in those Italian cities.
Trade Creates Wealth• Trade creates a new wealthy class of
people known as merchants (no longer just about nobles with lots of land)
• Some merchants will become patrons of artists (supporting them financially)
Cause 3 – Black Death
• A disease that begins in Asia and travels through trade routes/people into Europe
• Transmitted by fleas from rats
Many Die• Bubonic Plague kills between
30% - 60% of all Europeans• Chaos happens as people lose
faith
Changes Society• More jobs are available at
higher wages because so many died–Peasants can leave manors to get
jobs• People lose faith in the Church
The Black Death
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZy6XilXDZQ
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qK4X6bqy3o&feature=related