1. Causes, characteristics and Consequences of the Renaissance
, starting in Italy

2. Where did the Renaissance come from!?!
Crusades / Byzantines / Spanish Muslims
Rediscovery of art/literature/math
Black Death
100 Years War
Decline of feudalism
Rise of nation states
Increase in trade
Hence, it started in Italy…

3. Moved to here…
Started here!!

4. Comparing the Renaissance to the Middle Ages….
Towns were small
Nobles had power
Political instability
Church (weakening)
plague
Little interest in education/ low literacy
Trade slowed
Renaissance Europe
Urban
City-states
Secular
Increasing wealth
Interest in Roman and Greek Culture
High regard for human worth (humanism)
Traded with Byzantine and Islamic empires
Growth of power to the King

7. The School of Athens
Raphael

9. Caravaggio

10. Michelangelo

11. Leonardo da Vinci

12. During the Renaissance, Belgian physician Andreas Vesalius experimented with the dissection of human cadavers in order to learn more about human anatomy. The spirit of curiosity and experimentation that characterized the Renaissance created a fertile climate for the development of science. Advances were made in many fields including navigation, astronomy, mathematics and medicine.

13. Long term effects… concepts of republicanism and human freedom
English constitutional theory
source for the form of government adopted in the United States
left to the world monuments of artistic beauty that define Western culture

14. How did the Renaissance affect Europe?
Poetry
Art
Science
Interest in the outside world
Church out, people in

15. Did the Renaissance actually happen?
Kind of
Kind of not