Learning Goal: Describe what changes took place in learning, religion, science and exploration during 1300-1500s and how these changes transformed Europe. 

Today we will read chapter 28 sections 1-4 and explore the following questions:

1) List the three important city states of Italy.
Florence, Venice,Papal
2) What did Renaissance artists study?
Art, science, and mathematics.
3) Who was Leonardo da Vinci?  What did he paint? What inventions did he draw?
A great artist who made the Mona lisa, and inventions like the parachute,mechanical digger.
4) Who ruled Florence?  What was Florence known for?
The Medici family. Its Prosperity,fame, and the poor starving people.
5) How did Popes during this time act like political rulers?
They sent there own representatives to collect taxes, mint money, raise armies, and start wars.
6) How was Venice different than most Renaissance cities?
 It was built on 117 islands, had palaces, churches, canals, and the people looked to constaniople for art instead of western Europe.
7) Why did the doge have little power?
It always had to obey the council of ten and was not independent.
8) Who was Rabelais and what did he believe?
A physician monk who believed that humans were not tied down by there past and could do what ever they want.
9) Who developed a printing press in Germany?  How did this change European culture?
A german named Johannes Gutenberg. It gave out more books which allowed people to soon read, create new ideas, and redesign there lives.
10) What Church reforms did German and Flemish scholars want to make?
A new latin testament of latin translation.
11) Why did Philip II mistreat Spanish scholars?
Since he was extremely religious and didn't trust the workings of scholars.