1. 10th World Studies 10.10.17 Today’s Agenda: Quiz Recap… Machiavelli
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Today’s objective:
I can describe how the shifting of power occurred during the Renaissance.
Today’s Agenda:
Quiz Recap…
Machiavelli
HW:
CRA 417 (Stamp)
Machiavelli Personality Test
Online Response (GB)

2. Points of Interest from the Quiz…
What was the original purpose of sacraments?
What was the role of women in Medieval society?
How did the Black Death enter Europe?

3. Points of Interest from the Quiz…
Florence…ideal because??? Sight of ancient Greek ruins?!?
Medicis came to power?
Artists finding work during the Renaissance?

4. Politics Think about what Medieval Politics looked like…Feudalism
Are “politics” and “power” the same thing?
In groups—discuss an explanation of your group’s position…write it in your INDIVIDUAL notes

5. Niccolo Machiavelli One of his most well known quotes:
The original in Italian : “si guarda al fine”
Most often translated as “the end justifies the means.”

6. Niccolo Machiavelli One of his most well known quotes:
The original in Italian: “si guarda al fine”
But also can be translated as:
"and in the actions of all men, and especially of princes, where there is no impartial arbiter, one must consider the final result."

7. Groups: For each Machiavelli thought…write in your own “vernacular”
Everyone sees what you appear to be , few feel what you are, and those few will not dare to oppose themselves to the many

8. For the vulgar is always taken by appearances and the issue of the event; and the world consists only of the vulgar, and the few who are not vulgar are isolated when the many have a rally point in the prince.

9. one ought to be both feared and loved…
...one ought to be both feared and loved….but it is much safer to be feared than loved because ...love is preserved by the link of obligation which, owing to the baseness of men, is broken at every opportunity for their advantage; but fear preserves you by a dread of punishment which never fails.

10. “The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.”

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12. The Best Way to do Things: “Break with Medieval Political Theory”
Respond to these in your individual notes…
What is politics (or the state) to Machiavelli?
What should “The Prince” or any other leader be concerned with?
What do you think the Church might have thought of Machiavelli’s writings? Why?

13. Machiavelli and the birth of modern politics
“Machiavellian” has made its way into the English language as an adjective that means: characterized by subtle or unscrupulous cunning, deception, expediency, or dishonesty.

14. HOMEWORK… CRA page 417: excerpt from The Prince (Stamp)
(HW): Personality Test with a synopsis of your results
What was your score?
What would Machiavelli have to say about you?
What are your thoughts on your results?
USE THE ONLINE BUTTON TO RESPOND…(Grade)

15. Was the Renaissance “Real?”