Unit 1 - The Renaissance

"The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.”

- Leonardo da Vinci

Unit Topics

1. The Birth of the Renaissance

2. The Italian Renaissance

3. The Northern Renaissance

4. The Elizabethan Age and Elizabethan Drama

5. The Impact of the Renaissance

Portrait of Lorenzo de' Medici by Girolamo Macchietti

Renaissance Vocabulary

Supplemental Videos

1. The Dark Ages (Crash Course History)

2. The Black Death

3. The Crusades (Crash Course History)

4. The Northern Renaissance (Crash Course History)

5. Overview of the Renaissance (Crash Course History)