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Bellringer

Bellringer. SOL Challenge BJOTD: Why did the mouse sleep under the oil can? Submitted by Aanal Gandhi and Lucas Martin. Agenda. Finish Nation-states (20 minutes) Towns-Black Death (20 mins ) Renaissance Art (10 mins ) Renaissance (rest of class). The Rise of Towns and the Black Death.

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Bellringer

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  1. Bellringer • SOL Challenge • BJOTD: Why did the mouse sleep under the oil can? • Submitted by Aanal Gandhi and Lucas Martin

  2. Agenda • Finish Nation-states (20 minutes) • Towns-Black Death (20 mins) • Renaissance Art (10 mins) • Renaissance (rest of class)

  3. The Rise of Towns and the Black Death

  4. Changes in the Late Middle Ages • Farming improves • Climate warms up and opens up new areas for farming • New techniques are developed • Increased farming led to more food • What does more food lead to? • Trade began expanding due to Crusades • Fairs- people from manors go to trade goods • Guilds- group of people doing the same job • Sort of like a union- helped to control wages

  5. Trade and Finance Expand • Towns grow with increased population • People begin specializing their work again • Towns were crowded and unplanned • Streets were narrow, full of animals • No sewers, human waste dumped in streets • Town growth begins to ruin feudal system • Feudal lords still controlled lands • Rebellions were common against landlord

  6. The City Makes a Comeback • People need to borrow money for business • Crusades encouraged the use of credit and banking • Letters of credit expanded the supply of money and made trade faster • Money lenders are needed • Usury (charging interest on loaned money) is illegal for Christians • Jews could charge interest and so become the first lenders • New accounting and bookkeeping practices using Arabic numerals were introduced

  7. Education in the Middle Ages • Education still largely confined to the clergy, who were among the few literate people in the Middle Ages • Made new knowledge in philosophy, medicine, and science available in Europe • This new learning laid the foundation for the rise of universities in Europe

  8. The Black Death

  9. The Spread of the Black Death

  10. Effects of the Plague • Population severely dropped • From 450 million to between 350-375 million • Trade declined and prices rose • Workers were hard to find • Why? • Church loses significant power • Why? • Feudalism crumbles • Why? • People’s view of life changes in 2 ways • Some pessimistic – world is going to end  • Some optimistic- Eat, drink and be merry 

  11. The Renaissance • A rebirth of art and learning based on the ideas of ancient Greece and Rome. • How did these ideas get back to Europe?

  12. Italy during the Renaissance

  13. Advantages of Location for Northern Italian Cities during the Renaissance • Florence, Venice, and Genoa • Had access to trade routes connecting Europe with Middle Eastern markets • Served as trading centers for the distribution of goods to Northern Europe • Were initially independent city-states governed as republics

  14. Key Concept • The Renaissance produced new ideas that were reflected in the arts, philosophy, and literature. People wealthy from newly expanded trade, called patrons, sponsored works that glorified states in northern Italy. Education became increasingly secular.

  15. Machiavelli’s Ideas about Power Background: Machiavelli observed city-state rulers of his day and produced guidelines for the acquisition and maintenance of power by absolute rule

  16. Machiavelli published his ideas in a book called The Prince • An early modern treatise on government • Supported absolute rule of the ruler • Maintains that the ends justify the means • Advises that one should do good if possible, but do evil when necessary

  17. Medieval Art vs Renaissance Art

  18. Renaissance Art • Human emotions and Feelings • Life-like gestures and action • Religious and secular (non-religious) themes • Greek and Roman Architecture

  19. Art and Literature • Medieval art and literature-focused on the church and salvation • Renaissance art and literature-focused on individuals and worldly (secular) matters, along with Christianity

  20. Italian Renaissance Artists and Writers • Leonardo da Vinci-Mona Lisa and the Last Supper • Michelangelo-ceiling of the Sistine Chapel and David • Petrarch-sonnets, humanist scholarship

  21. Leonardo da Vinci

  22. Da Vinci’s Tank

  23. Michelangelo

  24. Donatello

  25. The Northern Renaissance • Background-with the rise of trade, travel, and literacy, the Italian Renaissance spread to northern Europe

  26. Art and Literature changed as different cultures adopted Renaissance ideas: • Growing wealth in Northern Europe supported Renaissance ideas. • Northern Renaissance thinkers merged humanist ideas with Christianity. • The moveable type printing press and the production and sale of books (Gutenberg Bible) helped spread ideas.

  27. Important Artists and Writers of the Northern Renaissance • Erasmus-The Praise of Folly (1511) • Sir Thomas More-Utopia (1516) • SIGNIFICANCE-that Northern Renaissance artists portrayed religious and secular subjects

  28. Next Class… • Essay :(NOT Compare/Contrast)Analyze and discuss • The emergence and development of nation-states(France, Spain, England, Russia) • The motivations behind the Crusades • The impact of the Black Death on the Late Middle Ages • The impact of the Crusades on the Late Middle Ages • On Friday: Multiple Choice • All information from Chapter 14—book and class activities • 50 MC questions • 40 SOL, 10 AP

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