1. AP World History (11/26)  Do Now: Our next unit is called “Global Interactions: 1450- 1750 CE  What is going on in this picture? How might this help us understand the upcoming unit?

2. The Gods Must Be Crazy (1980)  How do the tribesmen and women react to the “gift” from the gods?  How does it affect their lives?  How might this clip assist us as we prepare for this unit (global interactions)?

3. Gunpowder and the lateen sail  During unit two, we discussed key inventions and discoveries like gunpowder and the lateen sail.  How might these two inventions or discoveries impact the time period 1450- 1750?

4. Context for change in Europe  Crusades had stimulated trade and contact between Middle East and Europe  Italian city-states like Genoa and Venice had become key crossroads in this trade  By 1450, the Renaissance was already underway in Italy  Renewed interest in Greek culture  Importance of Alexander’s conquest and Hellenistic world view  Humanism- interest in the capabilities and accomplishments of individuals  Beginning to challenge the authority of the Roman Catholic Church  Renewed interest in secular (of this world) rather than religious themes  Writers use the vernacular language (Italian) rather than Latin

5. Result of the Renaissance in Italy?  Urbanization had occurred due to importance of trade  Wealthy merchants and others become patrons (financial supporters) of the arts  Medici family  Artists like Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, and Raphael  Catholic Church also sponsored many  Results?  Entrepreneurial spirit  Merchants (banking techniques, profit seeking)  City-state leaders (new ways to govern; political power based on individual ability rather than hereditary/divine connections)  Despite emphasis on secular, church still key  Many religious buildings  Religious themes in art/sculpture  Renaissance and humanistic ideas permeate entire culture and diffuse from Italy

6. Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa  How is this an example of humanist values?  Wife of wealthy merchant  Only wealthy could afford to commission a portrait  She is facing the viewer  We can engage with the subject  See who she really is (importance of individual)  An understanding of three dimensions  Perspective  Viewer can better understand relationship of subject and setting

7. The Creation of Adam (Michelangelo)

8. How an example of humanism?  Idealized figures of both god and man  God reclining-first time God portrayed this way  Intimate view of God  Spark between man and God-note Adam’s nonchalant pose (not one of fear)  Unity of natural and ideal beauty (harmony in human proportions)  Man in image/likeness of God  Adam and God are almost mirror images of each other  Interesting theories  Others claim that the figures and shapes surrounding the figure of God are an exact drawing of the human brain, in which the frontal lobe, brain stem and pituitary gland, are detectable, along with other parts of the cerebrum.  Still others have speculated that the red cloth surrounding God is in the shape of a human uterus, while the green-colored scarf at the bottom is actually a freshly cut umbilical cord.  http://www.visual-arts-cork.com/famous-paintings/creation-of- adam.htm

9. Homework for next week  Read chapter ten (The Transformation of Europe) by 12/3  Terms:  Humanism  Johan Gutenberg (focus on how important with this term)  Indulgences  Scientific Revolution  The Enlightenment  Mercantilism