Worldview Shift
This Renaissance belief focused on human potential and education.
What is humanism?
This technique created depth in Renaissance paintings.
What is linear perspective?
This activity allowed European cities to grow wealthy by exchanging goods like silk, spices, and gold.
What is trading?
This political system strengthened monarchs and centralized power.
What is a nation-state?
This invention spread ideas quickly across Europe.
What is the printing press?
This idea emphasized personal achievement and individual importance.
What is individualism?
Wealthy families like this one funded artists in Florence.
Who were the Medici family?
This social group gained power during the Renaissance.
Who were merchants?
This movement challenged the authority of the Catholic Church.
What is the Protestant Reformation?
This model placed the sun at the center of the universe.
What is heliocentrism?
This Renaissance belief encouraged people to question traditional authority and rely on observation and logic instead.
What is rationalism?
Why did artists begin signing their work?
To show pride, status, individual achievement.
How did trade weaken feudalism?
Wealth shifted power away from land-owning nobles.
Why would monarchs support centralized governments?
More control, unified laws, stronger armies.
This method emphasized observation, testing, and recording results.
What is the scientific method?
Explain one major difference between medieval and Renaissance worldview.
Answers will vary
(Example: Medieval focused on faith & hierarchy; Renaissance focused on human potential & reason.)
How does Renaissance art reflect humanism?
Realism, emotion, focus on humans.
Explain one cause-and-effect relationship between trade and art.
Trade → wealth → patronage → art.
This reformer translated the Bible into the local language.
Who was Martin Luther?
Why did scientific discoveries create tension with the Church?
Because it led people to challenge traditional teachings.
How did humanism influence both art and science?
Art: realism & focus on humans
Science: observation & questioning tradition.
Explain how patronage (the establishment of patrons for artists) changed the power structure of art.
Shift from Church-only control to wealthy merchants influencing culture
From a noble’s perspective, why might trade be threatening?
Merchants gained influence and social mobility.
Explain how religion and politics became connected during the Reformation.
Rulers chose religions; power struggles between Church & monarchs.
Explain how the printing press contributed to the Reformation.
It allowed the spread of new religious ideas to many people, quickly