The Renaissance was the rebirth of the European civilization promptly after the Middle Ages. Spreading across Europe from its birthplace in Italy‚ The Renaissance spanned from the 14th to the 16th centuries and was a time of great cultural and social change in Europe. This time period was distinguished by creativity‚ imagination‚ and innovation. This was also the time during which Europe’s classical past was recreated and revisited . What inspired people’s cultural movements during The Renaissance
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The Renaissance began during the 13th-16th century. “The word Renaissance itself means rebirth” Stability was being re-instituted into the Peninsula‚ mainly through the Roman Empire with a system now called feudalism‚ creating a new city. Bringing about the flowering of architecture‚ literature‚ religion‚ education‚ and art‚ the Printing Press was perhaps the most important development of the Renaissance. Rulers during the 13th century were referred to as Merchants. It was not uncommon to often
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In some ways ‚ the Renaissance turned the world‚ and ‚and place in the world upside down . In the years between the fall of Rome and the 14th century the Catholic Church was in charge of Europe. Literacy was only for priest and monks and truth was to be found in the Bible and the words of the pope . In 1350 ‚ new ideas and arts began to be created in Italy‚ thus starting the time period we call the renaissance. People started focusing more on themselves then just god. Three examples of these changes
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lot of the people were poor and uneducated. They didn’t know how to read or write. They only people who were educated were the popes or the people working in the church. The popes and the church people really took advantage of the poor and the uneducated. They told them that they only way their relatives are going to heaven is by them paying indulgences. After all of this‚ the Renaissance happened and it changed everything. The renaissance was a cultural movement that began in Italy. It sparked a rebirth
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the back door." The Harlem Renaissance was "an explosion of African-American talents and natural born gifts" (Harlem Renaissance: Re-examined 2). Although it was one of the most influential and impacting events when it came to advances in art‚ literature‚ entertainment and overall fun‚ many felt that the Harlem Renaissance itself wasn’t so much a celebration of African-American culture‚ but rather a regurgitation of White principles. But no matter how big the Renaissance was African-Americans were
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Giorgio Vasari is known as and often called ’The Father of the Renaissance‚ and rightfully so. Giorgio has done a lot of creditable work including art‚ books and engineering. The life he lived changed the way we look and do things today. As an architect‚ painter‚ and author‚ Giorgio Vasari had a powerful impact on the Italian Renaissance. Giorgio Vasari was born into a fairly wealthy family of the time.(Britannica) On July 30th 1511 in Arezzo‚ Italy‚ Giorgio Vasari was given life by Antonio Vasari
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Marco Polo‚ a Venetian traveler and merchant had an immense impact on how the renaissance shaped‚ and personified the values of the renaissance in numerous ways. Throughout Marco Polo’s travels he collected new ideas and inventions from China‚ and back to Italy. Thus‚ later on was used often during the renaissance. His travels also influenced many young explorers to embark on their own journeys. As Polo traveled through the Middle East he absorbed the sights and smells. When Kahn sent Marco off to
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The Renaissance began after the fall of Constantinople in 1453. This event would be one of the first to mark off the beginning of a new revolution in Europe‚ affecting the future world tremendously. The humanist movement of the European Renaissance the Protestant Reformation transformed Western Culture by developing a successful printing press‚ revoking traditional methods and ideas‚ and strengthening forces through intellectual reforms. The upheavals of the Catholic and Protestant reformations
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three would persecute‚ rape‚ and even kill each other in order to own the Holy Land. The Crusades had a more negative than positive effect on the world because people all over the world were persecuted for their religion. One example as to why the crusades overall had a negative effect on the world is because many Christians and Muslims all over the world were persecuted. Pope Urban II writes in his Call to Crusade speech‚ “Others they bind to a post and pierce with arrows… What shall I say of the
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Approximately 11 million people died while Hitler was in power‚ although his legacy lives on. Adolf Hitler overcame adversity in his early life with school and his family‚ and later on made a huge impact in the world. Born in Austria‚ at a young age Hitler showed astonishing intellectual potential and had many friends. Later on when competition in school became tough he then gave up because he was not exceling. After being unsuccessful in school Hitler decided to move on with his life and pursue
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