The Renaissance Begins
The States of Italy
A New Ruling Class
Renaissance Humanism
Italy's Renaissance Artists
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Renaissance is a renewal or rebirth of interest in Greek and Roman arts
What is Renaissance?
100
A mercenary is a soldier who fights for money rather than loyalty to a country.
What is a Mercenary?
100
Humanism is the belief in the worth of the individual and that reason is a path to knowledge.
What is Humanism?
100
One new style of art in the renaissance is prospective.
What one new style of art in The Renaissance?
200
The birthplace of the Renaissance was Italy.
Where was the birthplace of the Renaissance?
200
Italian city-states remained a collections of states, many of which were independent city-states because they were so rich and did not want emperors to rule them.
The states did not want emperors and kings to rule them. They were also extremely rich. For these reasons, what were they?
200
Diplomacy is the art of making agreements with other countries.
What is Diplomacy?
200
One of their contributions was new forms of literature.
What was one important achievement of of Europeans?
200
Medieval art was sometimes very dark and flat while Renaissance art brought color creativity and action.
What was the difference between the medieval art and renaissance art?
300
Italy was the birthplace because the ruins and statures were familiar to Italians. Art flourishes there. The powerful states encouraged the Renaissance
Why was Italy the birthplace of the renaissance?
300
The Italians gained their wealth through trade.
How did Italians gain their wealth?
300
The ruler in Venice was the duke or doge.
Who was the ruler in Venice?
300
The Gutenberg's Printing press helped spread humanist ideas throughout Europe.
What did the Gutenberg's Printing Press do?
300
Medieval art was sometimes very dark and flat while Renaissance art brought color creativity and action.
What was the most important technique that artists learned?
400
Europeans thought that people could change the world for the better.
What did Europeans think about people after they adopted Greek and Roman ideas?
400
Because of Italy's peninsula that had many port cities locate there and because the peninsula was in the center of the Mediterranean world. It made it easy to trade with the regions close to it.
What made Italy so easy to trade with?
400
In Florence, the powerful Medici family controlled the government for many years.
Who was the ruler in Florence?
400
Humanist scholars were curious about such subjects such as biology, ,medicine, and astronomy.
What effect did Humanism have on Society?
400
Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, and Raphael
Who were the three most famous artists in Renaissance time?
500
A ruler could keep his power in the Italian states by doing whatever is necessary to keep power and protect their city even if they had to lie and kill
How could a ruler keep his hold on power in the Italian states?
500
Leonardo Da Vinci was the leading renaissance scientists.
Who was one of the leading Renaissance scientists?
500
Renaissance women had fewer roles than men.
Did men and women have equal importance in Renaissance art?
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