The Renaissance era by Shellton Morgan https://padlet.com/shelltonm0158/chycskthh1j25jah en-us 2023-01-13 15:37:32 UTC 2025-10-18 11:56:31 UTC hello@padlet.com Darkness to light (1400-1700) shelltonm0158 https://padlet.com/shelltonm0158/chycskthh1j25jah/wish/2443757046 During the 14th century. A cultural movement called humanism began to gain momentum in Italy. Among its many principles, humanism promoted the idea that man was the center of his own universe. People should embrace human achievements in education, classical arts, literature and science.]]> 2023-01-13 15:58:46 UTC https://padlet.com/shelltonm0158/chycskthh1j25jah/wish/2443757046 The black death (1346-1352) shelltonm0158 https://padlet.com/shelltonm0158/chycskthh1j25jah/wish/2443758994 Bubonic plague is an infection spread mostly to humans by infected fleas that traveled on rodents. Called the Black Death, it killed millions of Europeans during the Middle Ages. Prevention doesn't include a vaccine, but does involve reducing your exposure to mice, rats, squirrels and other animals that may be infected.]]> 2023-01-13 16:00:21 UTC https://padlet.com/shelltonm0158/chycskthh1j25jah/wish/2443758994 Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) shelltonm0158 https://padlet.com/shelltonm0158/chycskthh1j25jah/wish/2443786018 Leonardo da Vinci was a painter, engineer, architect,  inventor, and student of all things scientific. Today he remains best known for two of his paintings, "Mona Lisa" and "The Last Supper. He filled dozens of secret notebooks with inventions, observations and theories about pursuits from aeronautics to human anatomy. ]]> 2023-01-13 16:22:18 UTC https://padlet.com/shelltonm0158/chycskthh1j25jah/wish/2443786018 Christopher Columbus discovers the new world(1492) shelltonm0158 https://padlet.com/shelltonm0158/chycskthh1j25jah/wish/2443802385 After sailing across the Atlantic Ocean, Italian explorer Christopher Columbus sights a Bahamian island on October 12, 1492, believing he has reached East Asia. His expedition went ashore the same day and claimed the land for Isabella and Ferdinand of Spain who sponsored his attempt to find a western ocean route to China, India, and the fabled gold and spice islands of Asia.]]> 2023-01-13 16:35:48 UTC https://padlet.com/shelltonm0158/chycskthh1j25jah/wish/2443802385 William Shakespeare (1564-1616 shelltonm0158 https://padlet.com/shelltonm0158/chycskthh1j25jah/wish/2443811797 Considered the greatest English-speaking writer in history and known as England’s national poet.  To this day, countless theater festivals around the world honor his work, students memorize his eloquent poems and scholars reinterpret the million words of text he composed. They also hunt for clues about the life of the man who inspires such “bardolatry” (as George Bernard Shaw derisively called it), much of which remains shrouded in mystery. Born into a family of modest means in Elizabethan England, the “Bard of Avon” wrote at least 37 plays and a collection of sonnets, established the legendary Globe theater and helped transform the English language.]]> 2023-01-13 16:43:39 UTC https://padlet.com/shelltonm0158/chycskthh1j25jah/wish/2443811797 Joan of arc (1412-1431) shelltonm0158 https://padlet.com/shelltonm0158/chycskthh1j25jah/wish/2443816570 Joan of Arc, a pious peasant in medieval France, believed that God had chosen her to lead France to victory in its long-running war with England. With no military training, Joan convinced crown prince Charles of Valois to allow her to lead a French army to the besieged city of Orléans, where they achieved a stunning victory. After seeing the prince crowned King Charles VII, Joan was captured by enemy forces, tried for witchcraft and burned at the stake at the age of 19. By the time she was canonized in 1920, Joan of Arc was considered one of history’s greatest martyrs, and the patron saint of France.]]> 2023-01-13 16:47:51 UTC https://padlet.com/shelltonm0158/chycskthh1j25jah/wish/2443816570 Johann Gutenberg invents the moving printer (1439) gavinm6217 https://padlet.com/shelltonm0158/chycskthh1j25jah/wish/2443817539 Johannes Gutenberg invention of mechanical movable type printing in about 1439 was the most important communications breakthrough in history. It meant books could be mass produced, rather than painstakingly copied by hand.]]> 2023-01-13 16:48:41 UTC https://padlet.com/shelltonm0158/chycskthh1j25jah/wish/2443817539 Cosimo de´ Medici dies in Florence, Italy (1464) gavinm6217 https://padlet.com/shelltonm0158/chycskthh1j25jah/wish/2443922166 Cosimo was the elder son and successor of Giovanni di Bicci de’ Medici, who founded the Medici Bank in the 1390s, opened branches in Rome, Venice and Naples and went on to take charge of the Vatican’s finances. He died in 1429, when Cosimo was 39. Cosimo was a brilliant businessman who made a colossal fortune in banking and also adroitly built up Medici political power in Florence. In 1433 some of his rivals had him arrested and charged with trying to elevate himself above the status of an ordinary citizen, which in supposedly democratic Florence could carry the death penalty.]]> 2023-01-13 18:24:50 UTC https://padlet.com/shelltonm0158/chycskthh1j25jah/wish/2443922166 The Spanish Inquisition (1478) gavinm6217 https://padlet.com/shelltonm0158/chycskthh1j25jah/wish/2443928763 The medieval inquisition had played a considerable role in Christian Spain during the 13th century, but the struggle against the Moors had kept the inhabitants of the Iberian Peninsula busy and served to strengthen their faith.]]> 2023-01-13 18:30:22 UTC https://padlet.com/shelltonm0158/chycskthh1j25jah/wish/2443928763 The start of the European war (1524-1648) gavinm6217 https://padlet.com/shelltonm0158/chycskthh1j25jah/wish/2443934321 During the period of 1524 until 1648, Europe was plagued by wars of religion. It is important to recognize, however, that while religion was given as the reason for war, there were many other reasons as well. These included land, money and economics, political power, natural resources, and more.


]]> 2023-01-13 18:34:41 UTC https://padlet.com/shelltonm0158/chycskthh1j25jah/wish/2443934321 Ivan the Terrible was born (1530) gavinm6217 https://padlet.com/shelltonm0158/chycskthh1j25jah/wish/2443937655 Ivan was the son of Grand Prince Vasily III of Moscow and his second wife, Yelena Glinskaya. He was to become the penultimate representative of the Rurik dynasty. On December 4, 1533, immediately after his father’s death, the three-year-old Ivan was proclaimed grand prince of Moscow. ]]> 2023-01-13 18:37:17 UTC https://padlet.com/shelltonm0158/chycskthh1j25jah/wish/2443937655 Desiderius Erasmus died (1536) gavinm6217 https://padlet.com/shelltonm0158/chycskthh1j25jah/wish/2443939926 Erasmus was the second illegitimate son of Roger Gerard, a priest, and Margaret, a physician’s daughter. He advanced as far as the third-highest class at the chapter school of St. Lebuin’s in Deventer. One of his teachers, Jan Synthen, was a humanist, as was the headmaster, Alexander Hegius. The schoolboy Erasmus was clever enough to write classical Latin verse that impresses a modern reader as cosmopolitan.]]> 2023-01-13 18:39:19 UTC https://padlet.com/shelltonm0158/chycskthh1j25jah/wish/2443939926 Coronation of Queen Elizabeth 1 (1559) gavinm6217 https://padlet.com/shelltonm0158/chycskthh1j25jah/wish/2443944661 The actual coronation took place in Westminster Abbey on Sunday 15 January 1559. The ritual itself was a clever compromise between the Catholic practices that existed and the Protestant ones that the Queen intended to introduce.
Elizabeth was crowned in Latin by a Catholic bishop, but parts of the service that followed were read twice, in Latin and English.
]]> 2023-01-13 18:43:43 UTC https://padlet.com/shelltonm0158/chycskthh1j25jah/wish/2443944661 Saint Bartholomew 's Massacre (1572) gavinm6217 https://padlet.com/shelltonm0158/chycskthh1j25jah/wish/2443946621 Mobs of French Catholics killed Protestants during the French Religious Wars. It is presumed that the Massacre started because of King Charles the IX's sister Margret married the Protestant King Henry the IV (the future king of France).]]> 2023-01-13 18:45:27 UTC https://padlet.com/shelltonm0158/chycskthh1j25jah/wish/2443946621 Galileo discovers the moons of Jupiter (1610) gavinm6217 https://padlet.com/shelltonm0158/chycskthh1j25jah/wish/2443961713 On January 7, 1610, Italian astronomer Galileo discovered, using a homemade telescope, four moons orbiting the planet Jupiter. Looking at what he thought were a group of stars, he realized the objects appeared to move in a regular pattern. These objects moved in the "wrong direction," according to the understanding of nature at the time. After a few weeks, Galileo determined that he was observing not stars, but objects in orbit around Jupiter. ]]> 2023-01-13 18:59:45 UTC https://padlet.com/shelltonm0158/chycskthh1j25jah/wish/2443961713