1. Do Now:
Take Out your Galileo HW
Take out some paper

2. Age of Exploration
What stayed the same?
Importance of religion in everyday life
 New nation-states continue to centralize power
What Changed?
Before:
 The world was centered around Silk Road trade which Europe was on the edge of
 Economic power located in the Mediterranean
 Natives and Africans have little to no contact with Europe
 Some questioning of established truths
After:
 New trade with Western Hemisphere enriched Europe and shifted power towards the Atlantic
 Slavery, disease and the encomienda system transform Europe’s relationship with non- European peoples from one of exploration to exploitation
 Increased questioning of established truths

3. Galileo
Question: Was Galileo Galilei first and foremost a Catholic or a Scientist?
Read your source and write a HAP-P statement
Get with a group who has read the SAME source as you
Take a few minutes to affirm you understood the doc
Work together to create a HAP-P statement

4. Bacon and Descartes Scientific Method
Both inspired by Galileo and used his ideas and methods to create a new emphasis on science
Experimentation
Mathematics
Inductive and deductive reasoning
Scientific Method

5. Other Scientists Harvey:
Present body as integrated system challenging traditional humoral theory of the body and of disease as espoused by Greek physician Galen
Used work of Renaissance contemporary Vesalius
Newton:
Discoveries: gravity, three laws of motion, and calculus
Though versed in Classics, most of his work and influence inspired by contemporaries including Kepler, Galileo, Descartes, etc.
Both:
Both men garner ideas that were circulated by printing press and then their ideas are spread via printing press

6. Astronomy, Astrology, Alchemy
Astronomy, alchemy and astrology continue to be popular because they share the idea with new science of a predictable and knowable universe

7. Recap… Renaissance  increased literacy for upper classes
Reformation  literacy for all classes (clergy/laity, rich/poor) but progression slow
Exploration  Commercial Revolution which has direct impact on nobles, town elites, and peasants
Scientific Revolution  Enlightenment, secularism, continued increase in literacy for all classes

8. How was the “everyday” European affected during the time 1450-1700?
European society and the experiences of everyday life were increasingly shaped by commercial and agricultural capitalism, notwithstanding the continued existence of medieval social and economic structures.
This project will bring together the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, the Reformation, and Scientific Revolution, and Age of Exploration
Your job: analyze changes and continuities in:
Cities and Sanitation
Agriculture (commercialization)
Family life
Social life
Women and Witchcraft