1. Standard: SSWH9 The student will analyze change and continuity in the Renaissance and Reformation.
a. Explain the social, economic, and political changes that contributed to the rise of Florence and the ideas of Machiavelli.
b. Identify artistic and scientific achievements of Leonardo da Vinci, the “Renaissance man,” and Michelangelo.
c. Explain the main characteristics of humanism; include the ideas of Petrarch, Dante, and Erasmus
Essential Question: What factors lead to the Renaissance and what was the result?
Warm up: Who was one artist or writer in the Renaissance? Tell me what they did and their symbol.
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2. Give me one specific fact about the Roman Republic and one specific fact about Greece. Then tell me how Greece and Rome are different OR alike.

3. Rome Refresher Rome, located in Europe, expanded rapidly
Rome fought many peoples, one of their most important opponents was Hannibal of Carthage
Julius Caesar-good leader, expanded Rome, popular, feared by members of the Seante, and was appointed dictator for life
Augustus Caesar-first emperor of Rome
Much war, but after Augustsus, Pax Romana, time of peace in Rome