1. What years did the time period involve?
The Renaissance was approximately from 1350 to 1620.
2. How did the time period come about?
The Great Plague is seen as a dividing event between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Starting with Petrarch, Italian intellectuals began to reject medieval thinking and habits. Older concepts and literature were models that they followed. This mind-set eventually dominated in Italy and spread to the rest of Europe. Politically, Spain, France, and England emerged as powerful territorial monarchies. Also, the invention of the moveable type creates another dividing event.
3. In what area of the world did the movement begin?
The Renaissance movement began in the country of Italy.
4. Who were the major people involved with the time period?
Some of the major people involved in the Renaissance were William Shakespeare, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Johann Gutenberg, Martin Luther, John Calvin, Galileo, Christopher Columbus, Ferdinand Magellan, Isaac Newton, Prince Henry the Navigator, King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella, Henry VIII, Queen Elizabeth I, Francisco Pizarro, Leonardo, Raphael, Donatello, Hernando Cortes, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Voltaire, John Lock, Nicolaus Copernicus, and Petrarch.
5. What major events took place that shaped the time period?
Some of the events that shaped the Renaissance time period included the "discovery” of the Americas, the invention of moveable type, the rise of Spain, France, and England as monarchies, the Great Plague, and the intellectual movement of humanism.
6. What time period did the Renaissance give way to? Did the Renaissance have anything to do with inspiring that future time period?
The Renaissance gave way to the Scientific Revolution. The Renaissance and the ideas developed during that time period definitely had something to do with inspiring this future time period. Without intellectuals going back to the older literature and concepts, they would not have been able to build upon their knowledge and develop new technology.
The Renaissance was approximately from 1350 to 1620.
2. How did the time period come about?
The Great Plague is seen as a dividing event between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Starting with Petrarch, Italian intellectuals began to reject medieval thinking and habits. Older concepts and literature were models that they followed. This mind-set eventually dominated in Italy and spread to the rest of Europe. Politically, Spain, France, and England emerged as powerful territorial monarchies. Also, the invention of the moveable type creates another dividing event.
3. In what area of the world did the movement begin?
The Renaissance movement began in the country of Italy.
4. Who were the major people involved with the time period?
Some of the major people involved in the Renaissance were William Shakespeare, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Johann Gutenberg, Martin Luther, John Calvin, Galileo, Christopher Columbus, Ferdinand Magellan, Isaac Newton, Prince Henry the Navigator, King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella, Henry VIII, Queen Elizabeth I, Francisco Pizarro, Leonardo, Raphael, Donatello, Hernando Cortes, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Voltaire, John Lock, Nicolaus Copernicus, and Petrarch.
5. What major events took place that shaped the time period?
Some of the events that shaped the Renaissance time period included the "discovery” of the Americas, the invention of moveable type, the rise of Spain, France, and England as monarchies, the Great Plague, and the intellectual movement of humanism.
6. What time period did the Renaissance give way to? Did the Renaissance have anything to do with inspiring that future time period?
The Renaissance gave way to the Scientific Revolution. The Renaissance and the ideas developed during that time period definitely had something to do with inspiring this future time period. Without intellectuals going back to the older literature and concepts, they would not have been able to build upon their knowledge and develop new technology.