RENAISSANCE
What does the word Renaissance mean?
REBIRTH (in French)
What does a POLYMATH mean?
Who invented the PRINTING PRESS?
Johannes Gutenberg
The PROTESTANT REFORMATION was another very important movement that helped change the way people thought at the beginning of modern times.
It deeply changed the way people thought about RELIGION.
What was the main religion in Western Europe during medieval times?
CATHOLICISM (only existing branch of Christianity in Western Europe during medieval times).
A third movement or period at the beginning of modern times that helped “shake” and transform the way people thought about the world was the so-called AGE OF EXPLORATION.
What continents did Europeans know about during medieval times?
EUROPE, PART OF AFRICA and PART OF ASIA
“The Renaissance was a period of time in Europe very RICH IN CULTURE! During this time, there were new ideas, new art, new inventions, new literature, and even new types of architecture! There was also a ___________________ [meaning of the word Renaissance] and a new interest in everything from the ___________________ era or Ancient times”.
REBIRTH / CLASSICAL
Name one Renaissance WRITER...
William Shakespeare, Dante Alighieri, Miguel de Cervantes, Giovanni Boccaccio, John Milton, Moliere
When was the printing press invented?
1440s
Lutheranism was a new Christian religion created as a result of the Protestant Reformation. Who “started” this new religion? ___________________________
MARTIN LUTHER
When did Europeans first get to the Americas? _______________________
Who was the captain of the European ship that first arrived on this continent? ________________________
1492
CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS
The European Renaissance started more or less in ______________________ and it ended approximately ____________________.
1300s (14th century) / 1600s (17th century)
Name one Renaissance SCHOLAR or PHILOSOPHER
Petrarch, Niccolo Machiavelli, Erasmus of Rotterdam, Guillaume Budé, and Michel de Montaigne
When did Martin Luther start his new Christian religion?
1517, when he wrote 95 thesis against the Catholic Church
Who was the first European to sail to Asia by going around the southern tip of the African continent? _________________________________
When did he travel? __________________
Vasco da Gama / 1498-1499
List three important ARTISTS from the Renaissance period:
Leonardo Da Vinci, Filippo Brunelleschi, Donatello, Michelangelo, Rafael, Boticelli, Durer, Titian, Hans Holbein, Tintoretto, El Greco, Caravaggio
List one invention by Leonardo da Vinci:
Helicopter, Flying machine, anemometer (to measure the speed of the wind), parachute, different "war machines", architectural innovations, scuba gear, revolving bridge
Why was the PRINTING PRESS so important for the spread of information?
Because it made it possible to print documents and books much more efficiently, faster and cheaper.
When did Europeans arrive here on the land that we now call Brazil?_______________
1500