1. Reading Guide Answers Many cities grew rapidly
Italy was divided while France was unified
Safer life to escape war
Techniques and ideas from the Italian renaissance, Northern Artists studied in Italy and took ideas back to their homelands
Woodcuts and engraving of religious subjects
He developed new techniques using oil paints

2. Reading Answers
6. Its ceremonies and greed Church Reforms Improving Society 7. Utopia Latin 8. Boys went to school and girls did not Someone who fought for women’s rights 9. Queen Elizabeth I No she was educated and a prominent Political Figure (opinion based)

3. Continued
10. He was a playwright and his plays inspired many people Macbeth 11. Johann Gutenberg, Mainz Germany, 1440 It allowed for hundreds of copies to be made 12. Arts praised individual achievements, More realistic representation, drew on techniques and style of classical Greece and Rome, and secular and religious works 13. Printing led to information being more available to masses, desire to learn, published discoveries, question rulers and church

4. Northern Renaissance

5. Northern Renaissance Begins
1450: northern Europe population had declined and was beginning to grow again.
Urban merchants became wealthy enough to sponsor artists
Wealth increased in other parts of Europe and patronage (investing) of artists increased as well.
England and France were unified under 1 ruler
Renaissance ideas spread out of Italy and mingled with northern traditions.

6. Artistic Ideas Spread
War broke out in Italy so artists fled to safer lives in Northern Europe
German Painters, Flemish Painters, and Christian Humanists became prominent
Utopian: means no place in Greek, in English means no ideal place
Women’s Reform

7. Elizabethan Age William Shakespeare: most famous writer of the Elizabethan Age, people regard him as the greatest playwright of all time

8. Printing Spread Renaissance Ideas
Chinese invented block printing, a printer carved words or letters on a wooden block, inked the block, and then used it to print on paper.
Bi Sheng invented a movable type
Around 1440 Johann Gutenberg, a craftsman from Mainz Germany, developed the printing press that incorporated a number of technologies in a new way.
Could produce books fast and cheap
Gutenberg printed the complete Bible– the first full size book printed with movable type
Books were now cheap enough for many to buy

9. Legacy of the Renaissance
Changes in the Arts
Art drew on techniques and styles of Greece and Rome
Paintings and sculptures portrayed individuals and nature in more realistic ways
Artists created works that were secular (worldly) as well as those that were religious writers began to use vernacular languages to express ideas
The arts praised individual achievement.

10. Legacy of the Renaissance
Changes in Society
Printing changes society
More books means more desire for learning and a rise in literacy
Published accounts of new discoveries, maps, charts
Christian humanists attempt to reform society and change views on how life should be lived
People being to question political structures and religious practices