1. When? What? Where? Northern Renaissance How ideas spread Gutenberg

2. When?  1330s – 1600s  The Renaissance marks a period of intellectual and artistic achievement after the Dark Ages

3. What?  “Rebirth” or cultural awakening  focus less on religion/afterlife & more on individual achievement/worldly concerns  individualism – value of the individual person  Were individuals valued in feudal society?

4. What?  humanism – stress importance of individual, intellect & classical antiquity (Greece and Rome)  new interest in learning – began to question traditions  What is arete? How does it relate to humanism?

5. Where?  began in Florence, Italy & spread north  Why Italy?  Center of classical culture of Rome & Greece -- visible reminders of Rome’s glory

6. Where?  Towns remained trade centers & grew powerful/populous after the Crusades  Italy’s city-states (ruled by a wealthy and powerful merchant class)  Example – Florence (Medici Family)  Why would Italy have a strong and rich merchant class?

7. Northern Renaissance  Around the 1400s the Renaissance & its ideas began to spread north to France, England, the Netherlands, & other western European countries  What’s this an example of?

8.  How ideas spread:  War – France invaded Italy  Trade & Travel  Printing press – Johannes Gutenberg invented movable type which led to the appearance of printing across Europe – led to spread of new ideas  P. 380

9.  http://www.history.com/videos/the-book- that-changed-the-world#the-book-that- changed-the-world

10.  People adapted ideas to their own needs  example: Renaissance was more religious in the N  Results:  1- Beginning of modern world  2- Leads to criticism & reformation of RCC