Why the renaissance started in Italy

During the time when therenaissance started to begin, trade began to pick up and become more popular in Italy. Traders brought in money, thus allowing merchants to buy and sell more items. Another catalyst of the renaissance was the invention of the printing press. This allowed writers to print and distrubute information very quickly.

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Renaissance Men

I. Copernicus

-astronomer

-heliocentric (universe is centered around sun)

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II. Brahe

-astronomer

-his work supported Copernicus

-observed sky every night for many years

III. Kepler

-astronomer

-Brahe's assistant

-planets move in oval-shapes not circles

IV. Galileo

-astronomer

-ideas challenged Christian views about heavens

-locked up & threatens with death unless he withdrew his "heresies"

-built model solar system

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V. Versalius

-structure of human body

VI. Descartes

-Father of modern philosophy

-rational thinking beings



VII. Pascal

-wrist watch

-invented math machines

Mathematician

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VIII. Newton

-scientist

-discovered gravity

-partially invented calculus

-created many scientific laws

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IX. Shakespeare

-created new words

-playwrighter

-poetic writer

X. Dante

-wrote in vernacular

-wrote Divine Comedy

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XI. Erasmus

-one of the most important scholars of his age

-produced new Greek edition of Christian Bible

-humanist

XII. More

-humanist

-came up with the Ideal Society (men and women live in peace and harmony)

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XIII. Gutenberg

Printed the complete edition of the Christian Bible using printing press.

 

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Leonardo da Vinci

The Last Supper by Leonardo da Vinci

 

A) Leonardo da Vinci, painting, created in the late 15th century, located in Santa Maria dells Grazie

B) the Last Supper

C) Leonardo da Vinci was born on April 5, 1452 in a town of Vinci, Italy. By the age of 14, he was One of the greatest painters. He was assigned many places to go and share his talent with other famous painters. He last stop was in the Belvedere in the Vatican in Rome, where he died on May 2, 1519. One interesting fact about Leonardo is that he enjoyed buying birds in cages so he could set them free.

D) The piece is an image that Leonardo can up with of the Last Supper. The image has Jesus and his disciples T the table with him. There is a conspiracy about this piece. People think that one of the members there and is actually Mary.

E) The painting has the qualities of Composition. It has many hidden triangles that dissect the eye to Jesus' face. It also incorporates Religion.

 

 

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Machiavellian Leader

     A modern day Machiavellian leader is poll pot in Cambodia.  He fits with Machiavelli's quote,"it is greater to be feared than love." Polpot was an extreme Communist of Cambodia.  This man killed thousands of his own people. He definitely wanted to be feared amongst him people than to be loved. I think he wanted to be like this to seem powerful and not weak.

Life as a merchant during the Renaissance

     My name is Jerry and I am a merchant that sells used shoes at the downtown market. Not a lot of people go to my shop because of the location. Recently, other who have been here in the market with me have been getting sick. I heard a rumor that it was called the lack plague. I have witnessed people falling over and then suddenly dying. I fear that my family will be next.
     I think it would be a good idea  if I went ahead and packed up my family to move else where. I might try to get a job elsewhere at an actual company. I heard of the Medici family through a costumer. They gave me information about the whole family. I'm going to try to get a job at one of their banks. Maybe then I can take care of my family.

Timbuktu map

Northeast Asia Picture

African Trading Kingdom Pictures

Fujiwara Japan

     While doing research about the Fujiwara clan, I had an idea to go back in time with my time machine, and visit the giant family. When i first got there, I ended up in a strange forest. There seemed to be a parade of people walking with a somber look on their faces. I went over there to check it out. Two men were carrying a huge crate. It looked as if they were going to go bury someone.
     I didn't want to see that aweful sight, so I continued down the road. After a couple of hours of traveling, I finally found a small settlement. One of the people there invited my into their hut. I started talking to them, explaining why I was here, and they suddenly got up in excitement. They dragged me out and showed me a stange looking hut.
     I couldn't understand what the man was trying to tell me. Apparently, it was a hut that the Empress Wu was currently in at the moment. I ran over to the place to go check it out. It was quite bare inside, but at the far corner of the room sat the empress. I snapped a quick picture of her before I left. It was neat seeing her because she was the one I was doing research on.








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Tang Dynasty

       Last month during December while I was looking reading a copy of a poem from Li Bo, I decided to go back in time to when it was written. When I went back in time, I came to the era of the Tang Dynasty. I arrived in a building I recognized named the Wild Goose Pagoda. I went into one of the open rooms. I saw many men in there painting lovely pictures.

     I walked around the strange room to examine what was going on. As I passed a man with a high, jet black ponytail. His artwork seemed strangely familiar. It turns out, I stumbled upon the artist Wu Daozi! I quickly snapped a picture of his work before he noticed.

     In the corner of the room, there was three men frantically writing. One man though seemed at peace while the others seemed to be stressing out. They couldn't figure out what to write about. I went over to the man who was calm. I stared at his swift motions when he was making his letters. Mymtimemwas almost up, so I asked if I could get a picture of his work, and then I left.

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     In the year 1398, I took my luxurious time machine to the Kingdom of Timbuktu in Mali. While there, I saw many interesting things! As I was walking along in the scorching sand, I found some camel hooves. I quickly followed the tracks to find a herd a camels walking with some sort of heavy bag on them. I looked for their herder to ask him what was in the mysterious bags. He informed me that the were filled with salt!

     After speaking with the man for quite some time, I decided to move on. Out in the distance, I saw a small market place. I decided I would try to find food and a place to sleep for the night. It was not a very good decision to stay that perticular night. Throughout the night, there was lists of shouting and yelling. Apparently there was a market party. In the morning after I woke up, I needn't out to check out the shops.

     While I was browsing through the stands, I came across some weird fruit like object that I have never seen before. I asked the merchant what it was. She was perplexed that I didn't know what it was. She informed me it was a fig! At the next stand I went to, I saw the biggest piece of gold I had ever seen in my entire life! All in all, my time traveling trip back in time to Timbuktu was successful. I learned a lot about the area that I had never known!

Continuous Wreckage in Syria

          Due to conflict in Syria, a historic market has been destroyed. On September 30, rebels attacked the market in Aleppo. The Suok Madina has been an area that rebels and government officials have been fighting for control. This fighting has caused the city to split in rebel-occupied and government-held districts. Fighting continues to emerge in the city, causing fatal casualties and damage to the surrounding architecture.





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