Renaissance-Reformation

Renaissance-Reformation Overview

Renaissance
HA! Chapter 28 The Renaissance Begins
HA! Chapter 29 Florence
HA! Chapter 30 Leading Figures of the Renaissance

CONCEPTS: humanism, individualism, renaissance, revival, classical, vernacular, secular

Reformation
HA! Chapter 31 The Reformation Begins
HA! Chapter 32 The Spread and Impact of the Reformation

CONCEPTS: nation state, reformation, counter-reformation, missionary, inquisition, theology, theocracy, self-government, federalism, faith, predestination

Renaissance Fun

Resources-Links-Websites

Placards A and B-goes with HA ISN 190-191

Placards C and D-goes with HA ISN 190-191

Placards E and F-goes with HA ISN 190-191

Mr. Donn's Medieval Europe http://medievaleurope.mrdonn.org

CA State Content Standards

7.8 Students analyze the origins, accomplishments, and geographic diffusion of the Renaissance.

Describe the way in which the revival of classical learning and the arts fostered a new interest in humanism (i.e., a balance between intellect and religious faith).
Explain the importance of Florence in the early stages of the Renaissance and the growth of independent trading cities (e.g., Venice), with emphasis on the cities’ impotrance in the spread of Renaissance ideas.
Understand the effects of the reopening of the ancient “Silk Road” between Europe and China, including Marco Polo’s travels and the location of his routes.
Describe the growth and effects of new ways of disseminating information (e.g., the ability to manufacture paper, translation of the Bible into the vernacular, printing).
Detail advances made in literature, the arts, science, mathematics, cartography, engineering, and the understanding of human anatomy and astronomy (e.g., by Dante Alighieri, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo di Buonarroti Simoni, Johann Gutenberg, William Shakespeare)

7.9 Students analyze the historical developments of the Reformation.

List the causes for the internal turmoil in and weakening of the Catholic church (e.g., tax policies, selling of indulgences).
Describe the theological, political, and economic ideas of the major figures during the Reformation (e.g., Desiderius Erasmus, Martin Luther, John Calvin, William Tyndale).
Explain Protestants’ new practices of church self-government and the influence of those practices on the development of democratic practices and ideas of federalism.
Identify and locate the European regions that remained Catholic and those that be came Protestant and explain how the division affected the distribution of religions in the New World.
Analyze how the Counter-Reformation revitalized the Catholic church and the forces that fostered the movement (e.g., St. Ignatius of Loyola and the Jesuits, the Council of Trent).
Understand the institution and impact of missionaries on Christianity and the diffu sion of Christianity from Europe to other parts of the world in the medieval and early modern periods; locate missions on a world map.
Describe the Golden Age of cooperation between Jews and Muslims in medieval Spain that promoted creativity in art, literature, and science, including how that cooperation was terminated by the religious persecution of individuals and groups (e.g., the Spanish Inquisition and the expulsion of Jews and Muslims from Spain in 1492).