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Warm Up. Using the yellow sheet and the people in your group – number the renaissance inventions in order of their importance from 1 (being the most important) to 12 (being the least important). Be prepared to share why you find your #1 to be most important. Renaissance Inventor.
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Warm Up • Using the yellow sheet and the people in your group – number the renaissance inventions in order of their importance from 1 (being the most important) to 12 (being the least important). Be prepared to share why you find your #1 to be most important.
Renaissance Inventor Johannes Gutenberg And his Printing Press http://cdn.dipity.com/uploads/events/dba458f97c302c775deb634cafbf7f15_1M.png http://www.nwlink.com/~donclark/history_knowledge/printpress.html
Essential Question • How did the invention of the printing press and other renaissance inventions both positively and negatively affect society?
Background Information • Born in 1398 in Mainz, Germany • Invented the printing press in 1439 • The Gutenberg Bible was published in 1455 • He was never financially successful • Credited with the invention of typography in 1504. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Gutenberg.jpg
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Effects: Religion • Helped spread Catholicism • Spread great opposition to the Church and spurred new ideas about religion. • Printing of dissenting viewpoints, such as Martin Luther • Printing of the Gutenberg Bible • Once people could now own their own Bible they felt that they could develop their own relationship with God
Gutenberg Bibles http://burton.byu.edu/Bible%20Site/Gutenberg.htm
Effects: Science • Allowed for the spreading of new scientific information • Helped to spread The Scientific Revolution • Cumulative advance of knowledge http://galileo.rice.edu/images/things/hevelius_telescope.gif
Effects: Intellectual Thought • Means of permanently recording information and transmitting it to others • Aided in the growth of science Information not as easily lost as in the past Increased access to scientific thought Allowed new ideas to be spread more easily and rapidly http://www.retrogarde.net/post/21366425493/copernicus-and-the-renaissance
Effects: Language • Standardized language • As print becomes more common the dialect and spelling conventions that made their way into print become the standard. • First books written in classical languages (Greek and Latin), but soon books written in vernacular languages (English, French, German, etc.) http://www.accentedanm.com/images/Text/tfc_renaissance.gif
Effects: Social Classes • Before the printing press there is only an upper class and a lower class. • Upper class (nobility) • Buy expensive hand-written books • Pay for tutors • Send their sons to schools http://www.mrdowling.com/704-social.html
Effects: Social Classes • When books become less expensive and more affordable from mass production on printing presses, the lower class • Began to gain access to knowledge http://www.reconstructinghistory.com/articles/18th-century-articles/a-quilted-wool-petticote.html
Effects: Social Classes • The printing press contributed to the growth of a middle class. • As books were published, people wanted to learn to read. Reading led to thinking, to further publication, and communication with others. The first “World Wide Web” had arrived. • With knowledge, education, and money, the middle-class gained the tools they needed to win more rights from the upper class.
The Middle Class: Merchants and Tradesmen http://www.historyofpainters.com/metsys_painting.htm http://fa-english8.wikispaces.com/jdfa14-+Everyday+for+the+People+of+the+Renaissance
Let’s Think About… • What invention of the 20th – 21st century has had as great an impact as the printing press of the Renaissance?