The Renaissance Causes, Trends, and Impact

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The RenaissanceCauses, Trends, and Impact

• Unit 4

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Bellringer

• Would you rather be loved or feared?

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What we remember from last unit

• Feudalism declining
• Migration into cities/towns
• Rise of city-states
• Trade and commerce increasing
• Cultural diffusion throughout Europe
• Christianity evolving
• Church and Crown vying for power
• Population devastated
• Black Death, famine, and warfare
• Thesis Which of these factors is going to most
  greatly affect life during the Renaissance?

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Renaissance

• Rebirth
• Revival of interest in arts and literature
• Emphasis on humanity
• People were CURIOUS!
• Thesis What are you most curious about? .
  Why do you learn? What is the purpose?

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Renaissance

• Causes and Effects
• Increased trade with Asia
• Creates wealthy city-states
• Growth of wealthy city-states
• Wealthy merchants arise
• Rise of rich merchants
• Merchants have money to spend
• Revival of interest in arts and literature
• Artists are commissioned to create works of art
• Increased desire for scientific learning
• Invention of new technologies that help spread
  Renaissance ideas
• Construction of universities within towns to
  educate more people

Cause
Effect
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Humanism

• Remember liberal arts?
• Now called humanities
• Emphasis on good education studying classics
  rhetoric, grammar, poetry, history, Latin (Rome)
  and Greek
• Focused on individual accomplishments
• Potential of human mind is limitless
• Thesis What impact is humanism going to have on
  religion?

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Humanist Writers

• Made possible by technology
• Printing press made books inexpensively
• Founding fathers
• Boccaccio and Petrarch
• Wrote in the vernacular
• Secular Writers
• Castiglione The Courtier behavioral guide for
  how gentlemen/women should act
• Machiavelli The Prince power and ruthlessness
  are more useful than idealism

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Machiavelli

• Niccolo Machiavelli was an Italian philosopher
  who wrote a book called the Prince. He tries to
  tell an Italian prince how to run a city-state

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Principle 1

• Principle 1 All People are naturally dishonest
  and cannot be trusted

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Principle 2

• Principle 2 Because all men are dishonest they
  will always betray loyalty for personal gain.

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Principle 3

• Principle 3 Because men will always betray
  loyalty for personal gain, in order for leaders
  to control men, it is more important for men to
  be afraid of the leader, not to love the leader.

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Priciple 4

• Principle 4 Leaders do not have to do what is
  morally good, only what is best for the state.

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Exit Ticket

• Is it important to explore human needs and
  emotions? Why or why Not
• Should be at least one paragraph.