1. Renaissance

2. Black Death (25 million people died between 1347-1352)
What changes in society and in cities stimulated the beginning of the Renaissance?
Black Death (25 million people died between )
Decrease in population = more food for those who survived
Decrease in need of food = lower prices = people had more money to spend on other things
Specialization increased

3. Specialization in Italian cities:
What changes in society and in cities stimulated the beginning of the Renaissance?
Rise of City-States
Specialization in Italian cities:
Venice- Shipbuilding, traveled to near east, become very wealthy and created an amazing and unique city
Milan- Agriculture, silk, weapons
Florence- Banking and cloth

4. What ideas formed the foundation of the Italian Renaissance?
Inspiration from the Greeks fleeing Ottomans Humanism = people centered thinking opposed to God centered Secular = non religious Science = Copernicus and Galileo

5. What contributions did artists makes to the Renaissance?
Leonardo Da Vinci

6. What contributions did artists makes to the Renaissance?
Michelangelo

7. What contributions did artists makes to the Renaissance?
Raphael

8. How did the Renaissance spread to northern Europe?
Growing northern cities = more trade = spreading of more ideas
Fleeing Italian Artists
Northern Europeans went to school in Italy and brought new ideas home with them
Gutenberg Printing Press =
ideas spread throughout Europe
at a rapid pace

9. Erasmus William Shakespeare
What contributions did writers and philosophers make to the northern Renaissance?
Erasmus
Combined Christian ideas with Humanism
William Shakespeare
Helped spread the ideas of the Renaissance to the masses
Used real people to inspire him not themes from the Church