front 1 Humanists | back 1 - people in the Renaissance who believed in observing the world around them rather than dedicating their whole life to a religion. |
front 2 How did it start | back 2 - Petrarch and Boccaccio (humanists) - translated ancient Roman and Greek texts-traveled on trade routes and went into ancient cities to find them - their work inspired/dedicated other scholars in Italy and their ideas spread |
front 3 Middle Ages influence on Renaissance | back 3 Muslim Empire: scientific and cultural advances - astronomy, geography, and architecture - interacted without the Muslim empire when they traded each city-state controlled their own trade and government - traders and merchants took their knowledge back to Italy and spread to other - invaders=saw Italian artwork and inspired them - ideas spread to nations and other nations governments wanted to use the ideas of humanism |
front 4 Renaissance growth | back 4 - printing press - spread information faster and more consistently through Europe and the rest of the world - scholars - created their own type of humanism - Renaissance ideas spread all over Europe |