1. Do Now
Has there been an event in your life that has caused great change or impacted the direction of your life. How do you think your life will change after a future event—for example, getting a driver’s license?

2. The Renaissance

3. They wanted to return Europe to it’s former glory. Rome = Good
The Rebirth
Renaissance=rebirth
They wanted to return Europe to it’s former glory.
Rome = Good
Dark Ages = Bad

4. The Renaissance roughly covers from 1400-1700 AD.
It was a time when people focused on Roman and Greek classics.
It was a time of great discovery in art, science and geography.

5. Renaissance Italy
Urban society
Powerful city-states (Milan, Florence, and Venice)
Wealthy from trade
Secular (worldly) viewpoint
New wealth for material goods

6. Political instability
The Death
Recovery from:
The Black Plague
Decline in Church power
Political instability
Man… we are so lame…

7. New View of Human Beings
Emphasized individual ability
Goal: well-rounded person
Leonardo da Vinci: ideal Renaissance man
Painter, sculptor, inventor, mathematician

8. It sat on some major trade routes.
Italy
Italy’s location on the sea meant it had a regular flow of travelers and traders.
It had the benefit of roads and architecture left over from the Roman Empire.
It sat on some major trade routes.

9. The Renaissance started in Florence, Italy and spread north.

10. A family of bankers who ruled Florence.
The Medicis
A family of bankers who ruled Florence.
They paid many artists during the Renaissance (patrons).
Da Vinci and the Code He Lived By

11. Link between Asia and Europe International power b/c of trade empire
Venice
Link between Asia and Europe
International power b/c of trade empire