1. Humanism and Individualism in the United States
Warm up: Come up with TWO ways that you can relate Humanism from the Renaissance with your life today. Hint: look at the three main ideas from your notes on Humanism and think about what we talked about on Monday.

2. Study Guide Question #4: How do the three main ideas of Humanism affect your life??
Individual Worth:
- increases self esteem
- think about improving your life today
Commitment of Public Service:
- How can you help your community?
- Don’t litter, paint murals, community service, donate/charity, volanteer to help poor,

3. How Humanism affects your life:
Variety of skills/talents
Do things extracurricular
Chores help you learn skills
Mowing lawn, dishwashing, animal care, babysitting, etc.

4. Where the Renaissance was born: Trading Cities in Italy
Many cities in Italy during the Renaissance were colorful and lively places. The twisty streets were crammed with tall narrow buildings with shops on the first floors and living quarters above. Large open plazas existed in many cities, where people could go to meet other people and admire the magnificent cathedrals and other public buildings.

5. Terms to Know
City-state = a little state made up of a city and the surrounding countryside, both usually having the same name
Milan
Venice
Florence

6. Topic: Trading City #1- Florence, known for:
Florence Cathedral; Florence, Italy
Topic: Trading City #1- Florence, known for:
Banking (experts at placing the value of coins)
Textiles (making fabrics)
Uffizi Gallery; Florence, Italy

7. Trading City #2 – Milan, known for:
Metal goods, armor, buildings
Competition with other city-states improved their products; accelerated
the Renaissance
The Duomo, a perfect example of Renaissance architecture in Milan

8. Trading City #3 – Venice, known for:
Rush Hour; Venice, Italy
Marco Polo brought goods from Asia to Venice ports.
Much wealth came from shipbuilding
Grand Canal near Rialto Bridge; Venice Italy

9. How did they become Trading cities? Why were they important?
Needed to trade stuff to survive
Needed/wanted to spread their knowledge and ideas
Wanted to gain ideas from other cultures

10. How/Why did these 3 cities affect the spread of Renaissance ideas?
1) Great Locations
2) Got along with others
10) Richer than most other places
3) Trading ports included or close by
9) Good Medicine
Italy
4) Paid their Ren. artists to create beautiful artwork
8) Strong ties with Byzantine and Muslim traders
6) Lots of ruins to study
5) Lots of Scholars
7) Florence spread bank branches all over Europe

11. Give 1, Get 1 Rules 1) Make 8 boxes on you paper
2) Fill in the first 2 boxes with your own ideas
3) Get up and find someone from another row. Share your info with one another.
4) Give one idea from your list so your partner can fill in a box. In return, Get one idea from your partner and fill in your next box.
5) Move on to a new partner and repeat steps 2 and 3 until all of your boxes are filled with different ideas.
Rules
1) You can only trade 1 idea with any given partner
2) When you fill up all your boxes you have become a “Resource Person”…A Resource Person can give anyone as many ideas as he or she still needs.