1. Kick Off October 9, 2013
Imagine that you have lived in Florence, Italy immediately following the Black Death. You survived, but many around you haven’t. Describe your environment. How do you feel?

2. Why did Feudalism end?
Copy the stairway below, taking up the entire page.
Read The Decline of Feudalism.
As you read, record the reasons that feudalism declined.
Development of the Renaissance
Decline of Feudalism

3. The Italian Renaissance and the Northern Renaissance
Chapter 15.1
The Italian Renaissance and the Northern Renaissance

4. Trade Fuels City Growth
On the map, use a bright color to circle the location of Venice.
On the map, label the area of the Mediterranean Sea.
Use a light shade to highlight the trade routes between Venice and Constantinople and the routes between Venice and Alexandria.
On the map, use a different bright shade to circle the cities with populations between 40,000 and 60,000.

5. Objectives
Understand how changes in society and in cities stimulated the beginning of the Renaissance
Analyze the ideas that formed the foundation of the Italian Renaissance
Discuss contributions that artists made to the Renaissance

6. The Beginning of the Renaissance
Black Death and war decreased population
More food available, prices declined
Job Specialization
Increased trade

7. Renaissance Ideas
Renaissance - Renewed, sustained interest in art, literature, science, and learning
Interest in the classics (grammar, poetry, Latin, Greek) became known as humanism
Emphasized individual accomplishment
Contrasted w/ church teachings

8. Secular Writers Church no longer seen as source of stability
People turned to humanism
Secular (worldly)
Renaissance Man can do anything (a thinker and a doer)
Niccolo Machiavelli
The Prince
Book on how to rule
“The ends justifies the means”

9. Science of the Renaissance
Translated Arab texts provided wealth of knowledge
Challenged church teachings
Copernicus
Galileo

10. Renaissance Art
Medici family of Florence was important patron (supporter) of the arts
Lorenzo de Medici
Realistic
Subjects shifted away from religion
Buildings followed Greek & Roman design

11. Type of Art Famous Works Leonardo da Vinci Michelangelo Raphael
Compete the graphic organizer using page 443.
Type of Art
Famous Works
Leonardo da Vinci
Michelangelo
Raphael
Bramante

12. The Renaissance Spreads North
Trading networks spread across Europe
Invention of printing press by Gutenberg helped spread ideas as well

13. Answer these questions about the Gutenberg Press
When is the oldest known book from?
What kind of printing was used before moveable type?
How long would it take for one scribe to transcribe a copy of the Bible?
How many copies of the Gutenberg Bible did Gutenberg originally print?
When was the Gutenberg press updated?

14. Philosophers and Writers
Sir Thomas More
Utopia: Considered a perfect society based on humanistic idea of reason
William Shakespeare
English playwright
Plays helped spread Renaissance ideas to mass audience
Christine de Pisan
Focused on the role of women in society

15. Artists of the Northern Renaissance
Albrecht Durer
Realism and perspective
Unlike Italians, painted in oil
Jan van Eyck
Flemish painter
Landscapes
Used symbolism
Pieter Brueghel the Elder
Showed scenes from everyday life

17. What led to the Renaissance?
Development of the Renaissance
Decline of Feudalism