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Watch PBS Empires - Medici Godfathers of the Renaissance. Then fill in this sheet.

I expect that everyone will write in full sentences, and write something that is meaningful. You can also write down some questions.

After you have completed the sheet, please email it to me at mojonathan181@gmail.com. This is due on Saturday, if you are late the last chance deadline is Sunday 4pm.

Do not write "The people wear funny clothes." or short remarks. A good example of what you should write would be, "Why is the Pope such a powerful person?" or "Why is a dome so important?"

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This from a 4-Part PBS series called Empires - Medici Godfathers of the Renaissance. This is first Episode and it is on Youku

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Renaissance
Black Death
Bubonic Plague
Architecture
Humanism
Secular
City State
Cathedral
Feudal system
Catholic Church
Christianity
Florence
Medieval Europe/The Middle Ages

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This is a quick video that summarizes what is special about the Renaissance and its significance to the History of Western Civilization.

We will watch this in class, then if you have any questions ask me.

Discussion Questions

1, What are some of the key points that the creator of the video is saying about why it is important to study the Renaissance?

2, Why does he talk a lot about the Medici family?

3, What do the Medici provide to the many philosophers, artists, thinkers, scientists and others great people of the Renaissance?

4, What is the creator saying when he talks about giving money to sponsor artists, philosophers, thinkers, scientists and etc?

5, What was art used to do?

6, How is beauty being used and what do people believe about beauty in the Renaissance

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Why do people want to change the way the live and do things at this time?

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Why do people want to change the way the live and do things at this time?

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This from a 4-Part PBS series called Empires - Medici Godfathers of the Renaissance. This is first Episode and it is on Youku

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The City-States of Italy

Look at the map, look at the borders and compare this map of Italy to a map of present day Italy. What is different about this map?

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The Bubonic Plague killed over 25 million people in Europe. The tremendous death and suffering caused by it made people lose faith in the Church and the Feudal system collapsed even faster.

So there is a massive plague that wipes out a large % of people. Think of the Zombie shows and movies such as "The Walking Dead".

1, What are some of the things that happen to society when a large number of people suddenly die?

2, What are some of the things that people endured and experienced during the time of the Plague?

3, For the people who survived it how do you think it affects them?

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How people felt about life after the Black Death

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How people felt about life after the Black Death

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Pieter Bruegel's The Triumph of Death (c. 1562)

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What are some of the new Sciences that emerged?

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What are some of the new Sciences that emerged?

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Rediscovery of Roman Architecture combined with Renaissance Ingenuity allowed this to be built. This is the biggest dome at the time. Who built this? This person also started to build using methods from Ancient Rome and Greece and develop new ways of building things.

1, What is the famous Cathedral in Florence called?

2, If someone says that the architecture/ the buildings are better, what do you think they mean by this?

3, If you want buildings to be better what science/technology has to improve?

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In English this means rebirth. It was originally a French word that was used to describe this time from the late 1300 to the 1600s. During this time there was a great revival in art and learning. They believed that for far too long knowledge and learning was being restricted by the Catholic Church. People wanted to study the writings, art, science and philosophy of the Ancient Greeks and Romans and lived the way they did. They also wanted the freedom to learn more about the world around them. Also some people began to question the authority of the Church and their faith in God after seeing so much suffering during the Black Death.

Think about the word Renaissance? Look up the meaning of "Re-Birth".

1. If something is being re-born what do you think it is happening?

2, What are some other words that you would associate with Renaissance?

3, What did people want that was.........?

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Why did it start in the City-States of Italy?

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Why did it start in the City-States of Italy?

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These places were centers of over-seas trade and manufacturing. People exchanged goods, knowledge and ideas here; changes in culture almost always start in the cities. The rest of Europe was still mostly rural.

What do you think the City-States of Italy traded?

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The Medici Family - The Godfathers of the Renaissance

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The Medici Family - The Godfathers of the Renaissance

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They were merchants, who gradually gained control of Florence in the 1400's. For many generations from Giovanni Medici  (1360 – 1429) to Lorenzo the Magnificent (1449 – 1492) to Cosimo I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany  (1519 – 1574) They were patrons to many artists, painters, writers, scientists and architects who created many of the Great Works of the Renaissance. As Patrons they provided money, protection and freedom for their Client artists to innovate and do their work.

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Toggenburg Bible

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What are some examples of Renaissance art? Why is Renaissance Art important?

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What are some examples of Renaissance art? Why is Renaissance Art important?

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First time a fully nude, free standing bronze statue has been cast since Ancient Rome. Art that showed the full human body, focused on beauty, that is life like and realistic started to appear more often. Also this statue was seen as being Homoerotic and Florence was infamous for sodomy...could Donatello have made this without Medici protection and patronage?

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How did the knowledge of the Renaissance spread?

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How did the knowledge of the Renaissance spread?

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This allowed knowledge to become more widely available. Books are now cheaper, people can read things on their own in their own language, think freely and challenge traditional ways.

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Humanism - What is this and why is this connected to the Renaissance and the Black Death? 

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Humanism - What is this and why is this connected to the Renaissance and the Black Death? 

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It is a belief that people should focus on human potential and achievement.

People should study and assess things based on reasoning and empirical evidence. For example when people started to read scrolls about Philosophy, science, culture, religion and other topics from the Ancient Greeks and Romans. They read them and assessed these writings based on whether or not they made sense. You do not throw a scroll away just because it is something that is written by a person who was not Christian or that the ideas did not match Christianity and the teaching of the Catholic Church

People became much more interested in studying the Classics and wanted to learn new things and do things in a different way.

The focus on the potential of the human individual, reason, logic, science and move to secular culture was very radical.