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Brainteasers#36:12-2-13

Brainteasers#36:12-2-13. What is Greek Mythology? Name the three social classes of Rome? Name the three roles of Constantinople? What are the beliefs and traditions of Islam? Name one influence of the Roman Catholic Church during the Middle Ages?. Based on polytheistic religion

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Brainteasers#36:12-2-13

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  1. Brainteasers#36:12-2-13 What is Greek Mythology? Name the three social classes of Rome? Name the three roles of Constantinople? What are the beliefs and traditions of Islam? Name one influence of the Roman Catholic Church during the Middle Ages?

  2. Based on polytheistic religion Offered explanations of natural phenomena, human qualities, and life events 2. Patricians: Powerful nobility (few in number) Plebeians: Majority of population Slaves: Not based on race 3. Seat of the Byzantine Empire until Ottoman conquest, Preserved classical Greco-Roman culture Center of trade 4. Monotheism: Allah (Arabic word for God) Qur’an (Koran): The word of God Five Pillars of Islam Acceptance of Judeo-Christian prophets, including Moses and Jesus 5. Missionaries carried Christianity and Latin alphabet to Germanic tribes.

  3. Renaissance • Foundations • Crusades • Increase demand for Middle Eastern products • Stimulated production of goods to trade in Middle Eastern markers • Encouraged the use of credit and banking • Economic Concepts • Church rule against usury and the practice of charging interest helped to secularize northern Italy • Letters of Credit served to expand the supply of money • New accounting and bookkeeping practices ( use of Arabic numerals)

  4. Renaissance Italian Renaissance Northern Europe Renaissance Wealth accumulated from Europe trade with Middle East Wealth Merchants were active civic leaders Renaissance produced new ideas in art, philosophy, and literature

  5. Why Northern Italy • Cities State of Northern Italy • Florence, Venice, and Genoa • Initially independent city-states governed as republics • Access to trade routes • Trade center for distribution of goods to northern Europe • Key Individuals • Merchants: wealth, powerful class, & dominated polities • Medici (MEHD id-chee)

  6. Machiavelli • Wrote “The Prince” • Observed city-states rulers • It examines how a ruler can gain and keep power from his enemies. • An early modern treaties on government • Supported Absolute power • Maintains that the end justifies the means • Advises that one should do good if possible, but evil when necessary

  7. Art and Literature • Different from the Middle Ages • Middle Ages focused on The Church and salvation • Renaissance focused on individuals and worldly matters, along with Christianity • Humanism • Celebrated the individual • Stimulated the study of Greek and Roman Literature and Culture • Supported by wealthy patron • Artists and Writers • Petrarch: sonnets, humanist and scholarship

  8. Leonardo Da Vince Mona Lisa The Last Super

  9. Michelanglo

  10. David

  11. Northern Renaissance • Growing wealth • Thinkers merged humanist ideas with Christianity • Movable type-printing press and the production and sale of books helped disseminate ideas. • Gutenberg Bible

  12. Northern Writers • Erasmus- The Praise of Folly (1511) • Sir Thomas More- Utopia (1516) • Artists • Portrayed religious and secular subjects

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