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THE RENAISSANCEA FLOURISH OF GENIUS
1485-1660
Cultural Attitude of the Renaissance
Renaissance = Rebirth (Greece/ Rome) Mostly joyous and progressive era due to it
being post-tragedyBlack Death
The arts, sciences, and literatures all flourished.Also religion became reshaped and also grew
Full of humanism- emphasis on the values of individuality and intellectual reform of humans
Better Known Historical Events 1492- Christopher Columbus lands in the
Americas in the West Indies 1517- Martin Luther posts his ninety-five theses
in Wittenburg, Germany 1521- Cortes conquers Mexico and destroys the
Aztec Empire 1607- First permanent American settlement in
Jamestown, Virginia 1611- King James Bible published 1655- Jews are legally re-admitted to England
after being expelled in 1290
Not as Well Known Events
1485- Richard III of England is killed in battle
1503- Leonardo da Vinci pains Mona Lisa
1517- First records of peoples from Africa taken as slaves to the Americas
1564- William Shakespeare born 1639- Japan expels all Europeans
except the Dutch
Discoveries
The Americas Many anatomical discoveries by doing
autopsies and transferring their medical findings to books and journals.
Copernicus found that the sun is the center of the solar system and earth revolves around it through Astronomy.
Magellan completely proving that the world is round by circumnavigating it with his crew.
Major Writers and Texts Shakespeare (1564-1616)
○ King Lear○ Macbeth○ Various “Sonnets”○ Romeo & Juliet
Newspapers first get
published in London (1621) Cervantes
○ Don Quixote
John Milton (1608-1674)○ Paradise Lost○ Comus
Important People Explorers: Columbus(1492),
Vasco da Gama(1498),
Balboa(1513), Magellan(1519),
Cortes(1521)
English Leaders (by order of death/crowning): Richard III(1485), Henry VIII(1509), Mary “Bloody” Tudor(1553),
Elizabeth I(1558), Oliver Cromwell(1658), Charles II(1660)
William Shakespeare Galileo Galilei
Crowning of Queen Elizabeth II(1953)
Extra Facts
The ideas of the Renaissance begin in Italy and flourished outward into, primarily, the rest of Europe.
Leo, Don, Mikey, and Raf all had impacts to the Renaissance Society.
Many ideas from the re-birth of
Greek and Roman ideas on self-awareness are still used today.
Sources
Holt, Rinehart, Winston, Elements of Literature 6th Course
http://rmn.fr/english/children/museum-experience/the-renaissance-15th-16th/inventions-and-discoveries
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renaissance