HOMEWORK--Complete your Agenda!
Who's Who in your review packet due Monday!
Review notes for Middle Ages test Tuesday!
Middle Ages notebook due Tuesday!
Following the Middle Ages, Europe entered a period known as The Renaissance. You will explore the following website for information and interactives during this exciting time period in history... when learning was again an important part of European life!
Each topic has some "deeper information" at the bottom of the page. Be sure to check these out, as well as the interactives! When you have your notes and are ready for the next topic, click on NEXT TOPIC at the bottom of the page (or from the menu to the left of the information).
http://www.learner.org/interactives/renaissance/
Start a new right page in your notebook entitled RENAISSANCE. Take notes (no sentences necessary) on the following questions (question to the left of the line, notes to the right):
1. What does the word Renaissance mean, and what language is it?
2. What is the overall "big" idea of the Renaissance?
3. How did the Plague (Black Death) affect the economy in Europe?
4. What was the "new middle class"?
5. What were some reasons for exploration?
6. What were some items found in the New World?
7. Why was the printing press such an important advancement?
8. What cultures, which we have studied this year, reappeared in art, literature and architecture during the Renaissance?
9. Which Italian city is considered the birthplace of the Renaissance? WHY?
10. Based on what you read about life in Florence, would you like to live there? Why or why not?
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