1. Chapter 11 – The Renaissance
Section Notes
Video
Origins of the Renaissance
The Italian Renaissance
The Renaissance beyond Italy
The Renaissance
Maps
Routes of Marco Polo,
Major Trading Cities in Renaissance Italy
Venetian Trade Routes
History Close-up
Florence
Images
Rebirth of Classical Ideas
Renaissance Art
The Genius of Leonardo da Vinci
Don Quixote

2. Origins of the Renaissance
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The Big Idea
The growth of wealthy trading cities in Italy led to a new era called the Renaissance.
Main Ideas
European trade with Asia increased in the 1300s.
Trade cities in Italy grew wealthy and competed against each other.
As Florence became a center for arts and learning, the Renaissance began.

3. Main Idea 1: European trade with Asia increased in the 1300s.
After the end of the Black Death, the economy of Europe began to grow again. Goods became available, people bought more, and trade increased.

4. Trade with Asia
In 120, the Mongols took over China. They made roads safe again, including the Silk Road, a trade route between Europe and China.
Traders and travelers began to use the routes again. One famous trader was Marco Polo and his family. Some of their journeys went over the Silk Road.
When the Polos arrived in China, they met the Mongol emperor Kublai Khan.
Marco Polo and his family gained favor in the Chinese court and took fabulous stories back to Italy.

5. Main Idea 2: Trade cities in Italy grew wealthy and competed against each other.
By the 1300s northern Italy and its cities had become trading centers. These cities played very important roles in trade.

6. The Trading Cities of Italy
Four northern Italian cities became trading centers.
Florence
Genoa
Milan
Venice
The cities of Milan and Florence were manufacturing centers. Port cities on the Mediterranean Sea, where the goods and services flowed, were Venice and Genoa.
Milan produced weapons and silk. Florence was a center for weaving wool into cloth.
Wealthy families controlled the important cities of Italy.

7. Analyze manufacturing centers and ports of Italy.
T.W.P.S. #1
Analyze manufacturing centers and ports of Italy.

8. Main Idea 3: As Florence became a center for arts and learning, the Renaissance began.
Trade goods from Asia poured into Europe. The merchant families in Italy became very wealthy. The families wanted everyone to see what they could buy with their wealth.
Florence, Italy, helped begin the Renaissance because Cosimo de’ Medici wanted it to be the most beautiful city in the world.
The love of art and education was a key feature of a time we call the Renaissance, which means “rebirth.”

9. T.W.P.S. #2
Can you asses the value or importance of what “wealth” meant to Italy, during this time?

10. The Medici Family
Florence, Italy, was a trading town, and banking brought even more money to the economy.
The greatest bankers in Florence were the Medici family.
The head of the family wanted Florence to be the most beautiful city in the world, so he hired artists to decorate his palace and architects to redo the buildings.
He also improved education by building libraries and collecting books.
During the time the Medici family held power, Florence became the center for Italian art, literature, and culture.

11. T.W.P.S. #3
What facts would you select to show the significance the Medici family had on society?

12. Cornell Notes Summary
Summarize section 1 in at least 8 sentences. Remember to use Primary and secondary questions to guide this summary.

13. The Italian Renaissance
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The Big Idea
New ways of thinking created a rebirth of the arts and learning in Italy.
Main Ideas
During the Italian Renaissance, people found new ways to see the world.
Italians writers contributed great works of literature.
Italian art and artists were among the finest in the world.
Science and education made advances during this time.

14. Main Idea 1: During the Italian Renaissance, people found new ways to see the world.
During the Middle Ages, people were concerned with learning only about religion. By the 1300s, scholars began to study subjects such as history, literature, public speaking, and art. These subjects were called the humanities, and they led to the thinking and learning known as humanism.

15. Rediscovering the Past
The popularity of the humanities was due to a new interest in ancient history.
During the 1300s, when the Turks conquered much of the Byzantine Empire, scholars fled to Europe and took great works of literature with them.
Many of the works were thought to be ancient classical writings, works by Greek or Roman thinkers.
Italian scholars wanted to revive subjects that the Greeks and Romans had studied.
Other sources of inspiration were Roman ruins and fine classical statues.

16. What role did ancient histories play in the development of humanities?
T.W.P.S. #1
What role did ancient histories play in the development of humanities?

17. Main Idea 2: Italian writers contributed great works of literature.
Writers such as Dante Alighieri and Niccolo Machiavelli contributed greatly to the Renaissance.

18. Dante and Machiavelli
Dante’s major work was The Divine Comedy. Dante wrote it in Italian, which was the vernacular, the common language of the people.
Described an imaginary journey through the afterlife
Described many of the problems Dante saw in Italian society
Machiavelli wrote The Prince. He was also a politician, and his book told leaders how to rule.
Told politicians to focus on the “here and now,” not on theories

19. How did “literature” of the time reflect society?
T.W.P.S. #2
How did “literature” of the time reflect society?

20. Main Idea 3: Italian art and artists were among the finest in the world.
During the Renaissance, Italian artists created some of the most beautiful paintings and sculptures in the world. Artists had the support of very wealthy families.
New techniques, like perspective, made their work come alive.
Perspective is a method of showing a three-dimensional scene on a flat surface so that it looks real.

21. Great Artists
Sandro Botticelli was a painter from Florence. He painted everything in fine detail.
Titian, the finest artist of Venice, reflected his interest in the past by painting scenes from classical myths.
Michelangelo was one of the great Italian artists. He was known as a master. He not only painted portraits but also designed buildings, wrote poetry, and painted murals in the Vatican.
Leonardo da Vinci was the true genius of the Renaissance. He was a great painter, sculptor, architect, inventor, and engineer.

22. T.W.P.S. #3
How did new techniques change art, and list how different artists approached their works?

23. Main Idea 4: Science and education made advances during this time.
Many of the texts rediscovered in the 1300s dealt with science. For the first time in centuries, Europeans could read works by ancient scientists and make their own scientific advances.

24. Science and Education
Mathematics was believed to be the key to unlocking the universe.
Engineers and architects used math to design new buildings.
Astronomy was studied to learn more about the sun and stars.

25. The Spread of Renaissance Ideas
During the Middle Ages, students had concentrated on religious subjects. During the Renaissance, students learned about the humanities as well.
Petrarch wrote about the importance of knowing history.
Education and new ways of spreading information would take the Renaissance far beyond Italy.

26. What “academic” subjects became popular during this time?
T.W.P.S. #4
What “academic” subjects became popular during this time?

27. The Renaissance Beyond Italy
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The Big Idea
The Renaissance spread far beyond Italy and changed in the process.
Main Ideas
Paper, printing, and new universities led to the spread of new ideas.
The ideas of the Northern Renaissance differed from those of the Italian Renaissance.
Literature beyond Italy also thrived in the Renaissance.

28. Main Idea 1: Paper, printing and new universities led to the spread of new ideas.
Although travelers spread the ideas of the Renaissance, the greatest method of communication was printing. The invention of the printing press meant that books could be made faster than ever before.

29. T.W.P.S. #1
What new inventions helped spread knowledge, and how did it accomplish this?

30. The Spread of New Ideas
Johann Gutenberg, a German man living in the mid-1400s, developed a printing press with movable type. The first printed book was a Bible. Books could be copied faster with the printing press than by handwriting them.
Students from around Europe traveled to Italy to study at the universities.
New universities began to open in France, Germany, and the Netherlands.
Women from noble families were often educated at home. They then married nobles from around Europe and spread the Renaissance ideas to their husbands’ lands.

31. T.W.P.S. #2
List at least 2 ways the ideas of “Renaissances” spread throughout Europe?

32. Main Idea 2: The ideas of the Northern Renaissance differed from those of the Italian Renaissance.
Northern scholars focused on the history of Christianity. The resulting combination of humanist and religious ideas is called Christian humanism.

33. How did the Northern Renaissance differ from the Italian Renaissance?
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How did the Northern Renaissance differ from the Italian Renaissance?

34. Artists of the Northern Renaissance
Northern artists painted in a realistic style and painted primarily scenes of daily life.
Albrecht Dürer was an artist from Germany who was most famous for his prints.
A print is a work of art reproduced from an original.
He carved an image into a metal sheet or wooden block, covered it in ink, and pressed a sheet of paper down on it to transfer the image to the paper.
Hans Holbein and Jan van Eyck were famous for their painting of portraits.
Van Eyck worked in oil paints, a new invention.

35. Main Idea 3: Literature beyond Italy also thrived in the Renaissance.
Writers in other countries besides Italy also included Renaissance ideas. However, these writers wrote in their own languages.

36. Cervantes and Shakespeare
Miguel de Cervantes was a Spanish writer who wrote Don Quixote in his own language.
William Shakespeare also wrote in his own language, English. He wrote plays and poetry and is considered the greatest writer in the English language.
The works of both men have been translated into many languages and read all over the world.

37. T.W.P.S. #4
List similarities and differences in “The Renaissance” art and literature throughout Europe?

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