1. The Renaissance Spreads North

2. Ways It Spread North Through Trade
By Tutors: 1485 Henry VII hires Italian scholars to have his children “raised renaissance”
His son Henry VIII makes London a Renaissance center by 1550
By War: 1517 France invades Milan and brings home scholars like Leonardo Da Vinci

3. The Printing Press
1440 A man named Gutenberg invented an improved printing press that let him print books quickly and cheaply
This produced enough cheap books so that ordinary people could afford them and thus spread literacy and learning.
1456 The Gutenberg Bible is printed, making it available to everyone.

4. The Northern Renaissance
Flanders: Flemish Painters used the new oil paints to create a way of painting still used today
Christian Humanists: applied Christian ideas to everyday things
In Holland, Erasmus wrote “The Praise of Folly” a Satire and encouraged everyone to study the Bible

5. The English Renaissance
Flourished during the rule of the Tudor Monarchs: Henry VIII, and Elizabeth
Thomas More, a Christian Humanist wrote Utopia about the perfect society
William Shakespeare and Christopher Marlowe wrote plays and poetry
The modern play and movie have their roots in the theaters of Elizabethan London