Renaissance

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• The Ancient Roman and Greece is the foundation of the Renaissance and without it, the Renaissance wouldn't be even possible. Ancient Greece and Rome is really important to Renaissance, because it's where it took place. So it's the root of Renaissance.

1. Florence, Italy

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   • Florence is the cultural center during the Renaissance and also main city that the Renaissance started. This is important because without the Florence starting Renaissance, it wouldn't have carried out to the whole Europe and became one of the greatest period of time. Florence and Rome are all located in Italy.
   1. Politics

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      • Florence were ruled by rich families, and Medici Family ruled for over 3 centuries.
      1. Machiavelli
      2. Medici Family

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         • During the Renaissance, Florence were controlled by rich families, and the Medici Family held the most power. They remain their power in several ways including building a lot palaces. They were wealthy and able to maintain, and also one of the reason why the Renaissance art are so popular.

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• Change is really important to Renaissance, because it's the time when the culture have changes which led to the Renaissance, and also Renaissance marked the change of thinkings and change people's thinking. 

1. Printing

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   • Printing is major change in Renaissance. It is one of the reasons that individual study became really popular, before they invented printing, people need to copy the books by hands, and it takes 4 to 5 months just to copy a 200 pages book, which the books and paper were expensive. But After printing techniques are invented, it's much more faster to copy books, therefore it's easier for people to transfer ideas using literature.
   1. Famous Printed Bible
   2. Gutenberg

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• Humanism elevate that every individual should have their own thinking, and the philosophy made a lot of major changes like science improvements. Which were really important to the Renaissance, because the arts and learnings grew huge over the whole Europe because of that.     RenaissanceAncient Greece and RomanArtArchitectureRebirth of Classical IdeasPerspectivesNon Religious SceneBrunelleschiDonatelloHumanismIndependent ThinkingPrintingPetrarchWritingDonatelloGutenburgMichelangeloshakespeareChangeScienceFlorence, ItalyCopernicusFamoud printed bibleGalileoVesaliusPoliticsPatronsMedici FamilyMachiavelliLeonardo Da VinciMedicinePower of church and King challengedRaphael1 of 1The Renaissance also promotes the idea of humanism. Humanism promote that every individual should have rights and their own thinking. This is important because it is one of the factor that the arts and learnings grew so huge over the whole Europe.     RenaissanceAncient Greece and RomanArtArchitectureRebirth of Classical IdeasPerspectivesNon Religious SceneBrunelleschiDonatelloHumanismIndependent ThinkingPrintingPetrarchWritingDonatelloGutenburgMichelangeloshakespeareChangeScienceFlorence, ItalyCopernicusFamoud printed bibleGalileoVesaliusPoliticsPatronsMedici FamilyMachiavelliLeonardo Da VinciMedicinePower of church and King challengedRaphael1 of 1The Renaissance also promotes the idea of humanism. Humanism promote that every individual should have rights and their own thinking. This is important because it is one of the factor that the arts and learnings grew so huge over the whole Europe. 

1. Independent Thinking

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   • Independent is basically the meaning of the Humanism, because humanism is a philosophy that allows people to think independently, have their own thinking, and way to live. This is important because without the interest of independent thinking, then the Renaissance won't be this unique and successful, and the humanism idea won't be spread. 
   1. Power of the Church and Kings Challenged

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      • Renaissance elevate humanism and individual thinkings, which opposite, the churches and kings believe that people should do what they were suppose to do. The Renaissance elevate that people should be curious and be questioning things. Therefore, two beliefs crashed together. 
2. Science

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   • Science is important to Renaissance because when humanism was developed, people started to study science and question what the bible said, before the humanism was developed, people wouldn't question the bible. Science also improved a lot during the Renaissance period just like art and literature. 
   1. Copernicus

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      • Copernicus is the scientist who identified that earth orbits the sun. And it's really important because it's not obeying the old religious sayings.
   2. Galileo

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      • Galileo was a very famous scientist during the Renaissance. He discovered a new research that there are four moons that revolve around the Jupiter. Those are major discoveries during the Renaissance.
   3. Leonardo da Vinci

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      • He was an artist, scientist, engineer, and inventor. He drew the famous painting, Mona Lisa, and he also created inventions ideas that are far ahead of their time. Leonardo Da Vinci is the great example of Renaissance since his multiple interest and studies. 
   4. vesalius
3. Petrarch

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   • Petrarch started the humanism and is also the first humanist. He was important to the Renaissance because the humanism changed how people look at life, and also the literature piece was still studied even till now. 
4. perspective

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   • Perspective is important because there are a lot of new perspectives after the humanism, and the Renaissance paintings often have background that showed perspectives.The new perspectives brought a lot of big changes during the Renaissance. 

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• Rebirth of classical ideas are really important because that's pretty much the summary of Renaissance. Rebirthing the classical ideas is the root of Renaissance.The Renaissance is the period of time were great interest of art and learnings in Classical Period because popular again. 

1. Architecture
   1. Brunelleschi
2. Arts

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   • Art was important because Renaissance is the rebirth of the art and learnings. It is also when people started to include some classical ideas, and the arts are improvements on classical period, which is the culture of Ancient Greece and Roman.
   1. Donatello
   2. Patrons
   3. Michelangelo
   4. Non Religious Themes
   5. Raphael

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      • Raphael was a famous artist  and architect in Italy. He composed a lot of popular artworks, and famous of using ideal human body in his artwork. He was known for his art piece, Madonna. His artpiece was really famous and still was until the day of now.