Renaissance

Unit Essential Question: Describe advances art, literature, architecture, and engineering during the Renaissance. Explain how these advancements have impacted the modern world.

Unit Objectives

1. Review the events that led to the demise of feudalism in Europe.

2.Analyze the reasons trade grew during this era.

3.Describe the culture of humanism and its relationship to the emergence of the Renaissance.

4.Explain why the Renaissance began in Italy.

5.Describe the many advances in the arts, literature, architecture and engineering made during this era.

6.Identify the reasons the Renaissance spread north.

7. Explain the impact the scientific and technological advances of the Renaissance had on later cultures.

Unit Vocabulary

Silk Road

Humanism

Renaissance

Patron

Leonardo Da Vinci

Michelangelo

William Shakespeare

Johann Gutenburg

Printing press