The Renaissance

  1. Europe at the end of the Middle Ages
    1. Ring around the rosie
    2. The Plague
    3. The Black Death
    4. Everyone was vulnerable
    5. Europe in crisis
    1. Before the Plague
    2. And then the plague
    3. Peasants revolt
    4. Unfair laws
    1. Rise of central governments
    1. Monarchies
    2. Revolts against kings
    3. Joan of Arc
    1. Early life
    2. Leaving home
    3. Charles and Joan
    4. Allies
    5. Battling
    6. Captured and tried as a heretic
    1. New ways to fighting
    1. Problems with armor
    2. Learned about weapons through trade
    3. Guns and gunpowder
    4. Larger armies
    1. Trade and commerce
    1. Trade flourished
    2. Commercial activity
    3. Society in towns
    4. Prosperous Italy
    5. Traders
    6. Wealthy Italian bankers and moneychangers
    7. Individualism
  1. The Italian Renaissance
    1. The birthplace of the Renaissance
    1. Renaissance
    2. Italian city-states
    1. Divisions
    2. Republic
    1. The ruling class
    1. The wealthy families
    2. Palaces
    3. Struggling for control
    4. Mercenaries
    5. Niccolo Machiavelli
    1. The Renaissance and life
    1. A new view
    2. Humanism
    3. Religion and life
    4. Individual worth
    5. Public service
    6. Skill and talent development
    1. The flowering of arts and learning
    1. Excitement
    2. Leonardo da Vinci
    3. Renaissance literature
    1. Writers
    2. Amazing thinking and writing
    1. Renaissance architecture
    2. Renaissance art
    1. Realism
    2. Oil paintings
    1. Wealth and the Renaissance
    1. Beginning with the rich
    2. Trace
    3. Average life was the same
  1. Renaissance life
    1. Morning
    2. Entertainment
    3. Parades
    4. Palio
    5. The Renaissance city
    1. Florence
    2. Larger parts
    3. One of the most populous cities
    4. Beautiful cities
    5. Florence is beauty
    6. Overcrowding and violence
    7. Curfew for all
    1. From peasant to patrician
    1. The lower classes
    1. Large percentage lower class
    2. Italian peasants
    1. Commercial and upper classes
    1. Guilds
    2. Moving up in the classes
    3. Patricians
    4. Patrons
    1. The first ghettos
    1. The Importance of family
    1. Obligation to a family
    2. Book of the family
    3. Living together
    4. The role of men
    1. Boys
    2. Marriages
    1. The role of women
    1. A dowry
    2. House wives vs. working women
    3. Educated women
  1. Renaissance in northern Europe
    1. Pieter Brueghel
    2. The Peasant Dance
    3. Real people
    4. Expressions
    5. Painting life
    6. The spread of ideas
    1. Trade and travelers
    1. Travelers spread ideas
    2. A lot of people traveling
    1. Words and books
    1. Ideas spread through books
    2. A lot of people read
    1. Monarchs, scholars, artists
    1. Ideas and ideals
    1. Feudalism to Renaissance
    2. Secular
    3. Studying
    4. Humanism
    5. Desiderius Erasmus
    1. Achievements
    1. Arts and literature
    1. Realistic arts
    2. Realistic literature
    3. Sir Thomas Moore
    4. Utopia
    5. William Shakespeare
    1. Medicine
    1. Renaissance medicine
    2. "I treated him, God cured him."