Renaissance Review

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Renaissance Review

• What should I know?

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Marco Polo

• Traveled from Italy to China
• Worked for Kublai Khan as an explorer in China
• A writer wrote down his adventures and turned
  them into a book
• Made many Europeans want to travel and explore

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Medici Family

• Richest family in Florence
• Bankers
• Cosimo hired artist to make Florence beautiful
• Valued education/built libraries

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Humanism

• A way of thinking that stresses the importance of
  human abilities and actions
• history,art,poetry
• Did not include religion

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Dante Alighieri

• Writer
• Powerful book about the different stages of the
  underworld

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Niccolo Machiavelli

• Wrote a book The Prince. It gave rulers advice
  on how to rule
• Rulers have to focus on the here and now and not
  theories
• Rulers sometimes have to be ruthless

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Michelangelo

• Ceiling of the Sistine Chapel
• Statue of David
• Statue called the Pieta
• Everyone was very muscular

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Leonardo da Vinci

• Mona Lisa
• Last Supper
• Helicopter
• Parachute
• Studied the human body

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Johann Gutenberg

• A printing press with moveable type
• Made printing books much faster and cheaper
• More people learned to read

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William Shakespeare

• Greatest writer in the English language
• Famous for his plays
• Julius Caesar, Romeo and Juliet