- Renaissance
- Renaissance means "rebirth"
- Italian: rinascimento, "to be reborn".
- It is the cultural rebirth in western Europe.
- Very influential movement from the 14th - 17th centuries.
- Mainly started in Italy.
- Authors
- Shakespeare
- Wrote Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, and Macbeth.
- Known as the best writer ever in the English language and some argue the best author of all time.
- English.
- Miguel de Cervantes
- Wrote Don Quixote
- From Spain.
- Shakespeare
- Explorers
- Christopher Columbus
- Sailed the Atlantic in 1492 and discovered the West Indies.
- He was funded by Spain even though he wasn't from Spain.
- From Italy
- Ponce de Leon
- Spanish conquistador around the current day Florida.
- Looked for the Fountain of Youth.
- From Spain
- Magellan
- Portuguese
- Captaining the first circumnavigation expedition.
- De Gama
- Explored in the Cape of Good Hope
- Portuguese
- Christopher Columbus
- Artists
- Michelangelo
- Artist
- Painter
- Italy
- Statue of David
- Da Vincihttp
- Artist
- Painter
- Italy
- Mona Lisa
- Michelangelo
- Philosophers
- Sir Francis Bacon
- English
- Philosopher
- The New Atlantis
- Scientific Theory
- England
- Sir Isaac Newton
- Philosopher
- Known for Science Revolution
- 3 Laws of Motion
- England
- Sir Francis Bacon
- Mathematicians
- Galileo Galilei
- Known for improvement to the telescope
- Italian.
- Kepler
- Used both Science and Math to come up with first law of planetary motion.
- German.
- Galileo Galilei
A.B. #2
Pick a historical building during the Renaissance period
Explain the importance by:
*Who built it
*Where it is built
*Why it was built
*When it was built
Florence Cathedral.
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