Renaissance - created from Mind Map

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Ancient Greek and Rome

The ancient Greek and Rome is important because the Renaissance based their ideas on the ancient Greek and Rome. Without Greek and Rome the Renaissance can't base their ideas on them. Therefore, the Renaissance will be different.

Trade and Commerce

During the Renaissance people traded a lot. This made the economy rise. With the extra money that Traders had they were able to sponsor Artists and Scientist.

The Medici

The Medici was traders in the Renaissance. They live in Florence, Italy and they have control over it. The Medici family started the Renaissance by influencing the people and sponsoring artist.

Florence, Italy

Florence, Italy is important to the beginning of Renaissance because it is where everything started. The Medici Family influenced everyone in Florence and since Florence is central of trades, people from all around brought the ideas back to their countries. Thats how the Renaissance spread.

Influence of of Italian city-states

City-states was very important for the start of the Renaissance because of the rich people in the cities. Rich merchants and craft man encourage arts. This started the Renaissance.

Rebirth of Classical Ideas

Humanism started when people from Italian City States knew about the Ancient Greek and Rome ideas from trading. They studied on Ancient buildings and books to help them with the Classical ideas.

Change

The Renaissance and the Medieval times are very different. To translate such a different people have to change first. This makes change important to the Renaissance because if people don't change their ways, it will still be Medieval times.

Change

When the Renaissance begins Humanism came and encouraged people to question things. This change peoples ways of just believing in the church and do science.

Change

People during the Medieval times used to copying books by hand. However, they have to change they way of printing books so they can produce more. This way people can read and learn how to read and write.

Archietecture

With the rise of Renaissance, they created or at least recycled a way of building their buildings. People from the Renaissance observe ancient Greek and Rome buildings. This way they can base their Architecture on their way of building.

Change

The art from Medieval times are very different than in the Renaissance. To translate from Medieval times to the Renaissance, the art style has to change. People change how they do art and the subject of the art they are drawing. Arts were changed from religious themes to arts in Ancient Greek and Rome. Arts during the Classical times were lifelike and filled with emotion.

Arts

With the rise of Renaissance. People was able to create art because people during the Renaissance traded a lot and made people rich and were able to sponsor artist to draw and do arts. The Renaissance are is highly based on the Ancient Greek and Rome.

Donatello

Donatello was one of the first sculptor to use the lifelike style of the Renaissance art. One of his famous work was his stature of David. It is so lifelike that it is so hard to believe that it is not molded on David him self.

Patrons

Traders during the Renaissance were able to earn a lot of money. With the extra money that they earned they decided to sponsor artist, mathematicians and scientists. This lead to the rise in science and arts.

Mongol Empire

The Mongol Empire is very important to the Renaissance. It makes trading from Europe to Asia much safer than before. Europeans can trade more safely without worrying about robbery. This help the Italian city states to trade and earn money.

The Plague

The Plague killed a lot of people in The Medieval Times. When one third of the population died, there were less people to feed. With the extra food that the people have, they can start trading it with other places.

Michelangelo

Michelangelo was sponsored by the Medici family. He was hired to live in their house and draw paintings and sculpt sculptures. One of his famous work is his Moses and David.

Politics

The Medici family was the core of the Politics in Florence. With their money they were able to built palaces and armies. The Medici family is also involved in many aspect of the city.

Machiavelli

Niccolò Machiavelli wrote a book called The Prince. In the book he wrote ideas about how Politics really works. Machiavelli wrote that rulers should do what works best instead of what is most moral. They should also be feared instead of adored.

Change

The influence of Italian city-states such as Florence lead to the change of Politics. The Catholic Churches used to have the most power. However with the Influenced of Italian city-states, people starting to use Democracy over the old Monarchy or Oligarchy.

Humanism

When people are studying the ancient classical ideas from Greek and Rome, they created a philosophy based on human dignity and the importance of individual. Humanist try and improve on the ancient Greek and Rome ideas and encourage people to question everything which helped in the development science.

Human Potential

Humanism believed that everyone can make their own lives. Even when they are born a peasant, they still have the potential to be something else. This contributed to human potential because humanism believe that everyone have the potential to be anything.

Independent Thinking

Humanism encourage people to question everything. By doing that they are encourage independent thinking because they encourage everyone to believe in something and proving it right. People will have their own thinking instead of just listening to the Church.

Non Religious Themes

One of the change from Medieval Times and Renaissance is the change in non religious themes. Before the Humanism came arts and thinkings were only religious subjects. When Humanism came people started drawing and thinking non religious themes.

Petrarch

Francesco Petrarch was one of the first Humanist. He liked ancient Greek and Latin books. He searched for books all over Europe. He even told his friends to bring them to him if they have some. Eventually he created a collection of ancient Greek and Latin books and share them with other Humanist/Scholar.

Science

With the rise of Renaissance. People were able started asking questions and observing stuff. With those questions people were able to strengthen their knowledge in science.

Medicine

Since Humanism came people started questioning things. One of the things that they question was about the human body. People researched and open up human bodies and study how it works. With the knowledge of the human body people were able to create medicine to cure viruses.

Copernicus

When people started to believe in science, they question stuff. One of the stuff that people question is about the world outside of Earth. Copernicus was one of the scientist that studied the revolution of our solar system. He observed our solar system and wrote a book called Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres.

Vesalius

Vesalius was a leading figure during the Renaissance. He dissected a human body and notice that there are a lot of errors in the books that people used for knowing the human body. He then wrote a book called On the Structure of the Human Body, which explains how the human body works.

Gutenberg Printing Press

Johannes Gutenberg improved the printing method in the Renaissance time. People used to take 4-5 months to copy 200 pages. However with Gutenberg's printing press people were able to print 300 pages per day. This helped people in the Renaissance get access to books and learn how to read and write.

Increased Literacy

With Gutenberg's Print Press, people were able to read books. Reading books helps people learn how to read and write. Therefore, Literacy will increase.

Shakespeare

With the Increased Literacy, Shakespeare was able to learn how to read and write. This made Shakespeare able to write a lot of books, which influenced writers in the future. He also left a mark in the English language.