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- 1. THE RENAISSANCECREATED BY BRIAN SALAS MIDWESTERNCAREERCOLLEGE JULY 2019
- 2. When was the Renaissance? ■ 500 BCE – 500 CE - Ancient Rome ■ 500 CE – 1400 CE – Middle Ages ■ 1400 – 1600 – Renaissance ■ 1600 – 1900 – Age of Discovery and Industrial Revolution ■ 1900 – present – Modern world
- 3. Why is the Renaissance Important? ■ Art ■ Knowledge ■ Exploration ■ The start of the modern world
- 5. Printing Press ■ 1450s – Gutenberg ■ Often considered the most important invention in history ■ What are the advantages of the printing press?
- 8. Religion ■ Printing press changes idea of religion ■ Before – the church was difficult to criticize ■ Martin Luther – Protestantism – Break away from the Catholic Church
- 9. Science ■ Scientific ideas begin to spread ■ Scientific Method
- 10. Astronomy ■ Copernicus – heliocentric theory – Helio – “sun” – Centric – “middle” – The sun is the middle of the solar system, not earth – Earth is not special in the universe
- 11. Science and the Church ■ Science takes power away from the Catholic church ■ The church no longer has all the answers ■ Galileo – imprisoned by the church
- 12. Medicine ■ AndreasVesalius ■ First person to explore human anatomy ■ Use science to cure people, not magic
- 16. Mississippian Culture ■ Covered large portions of the Mississippi River and the Southeast ■ Not a unified kingdom – Rather, a collection of people with similar cultural traits ■ Chiefdom – several towns or villages under the rule of a chief
- 17. Characteristics ■ Widespread trade network covering most of the United States east of the Rockies ■ No written language ■ Creation of earthen mounds to make buildings look taller, more important
- 18. Characteristics ■ Effigy Mounds – shaped like animals, humans, and symbols – Used for burial and religious purposes
- 19. Cahokia ■ Near St. Louis, Missouri ■ Largest mound complex in the United States ■ Monks Mound – 100 ft. tall, not including whatever was built on top ■ 30,000 people lived in the city ■ Ancestral to many of the NativeAmerican tribes east of the Mississippi
- 20. Cahokia
- 21. European Exploration ■ 1492 – ChristopherColumbus reaches America ■ 1497 –Vasco da Gama - sails around Africa to India ■ 1522 – Ferdinand Magellan – first to sail around the world
- 22. Why did Europe Colonize America, and not the OtherWay Around?
- 23. Why did Europe Colonize America, and not the OtherWay Around? ■ Guns ■ Germs ■ Steel
- 24. Conquest of the Americas ■ Spanish conquer the Aztecs and Incas – giant empires in Mexico and South America ■ Europe becomes extremely rich from gold
- 25. Conquest of the Americas ■ European explorers bring diseases ■ 95% of everyone living in the Americas dies ■ Smallpox
- 26. EUROPEAN COLONIES ■ Jamestown – 1st successful British colony
- 27. French Exploration ■ France colonizesCanada and the central United States ■ Demand for beaver pelts in Europe drove French colonists deeper into Canada ■ Expand down the Mississippi River
- 28. ■ Wealth from the Americas makes Europe the most powerful part of the world
- 29. Conquest of Africa ■ Europeans needed workers for labor intensive crops in America ■ Took people from Africa as slaves
- 30. TriangleTrade
- 31. CONQUEST OF ASIA - Europeans set up colonies in India and China to trade -Europeans take control over much of the world’s trade -British conquer India
- 33. Results of the Renaissance ■ Shift from the ancient world to the modern world ■ Interest in science leads to inventions