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Time Period 1300 - 1800 (Renaissance pg. 796 (Begins in Italy (Near East…
Time Period 1300 - 1800
Enlightenment pg. 934
The Fruits of Discovery
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Austrian composers Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Joseph Haydn and the German composer Johann Sebastian Bach were favorites of Europe's royal courts.
A Time of Contrasts
In cities like Paris the contrast between the poor and rich were inescapable. Wooden thatch-roofed houses in which common people lived caught on fire frequently.
Many lived in poverty, woking in the slums, suffering from malnutrition, food was costly. crime ravaged the city. In 1665 the plague struck again
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The Rise of Rationalism
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Thomas Hobbes was a philosopher who led to the social theory that people choose what is in their best interest. He said that people's common interests lead them to make a social contract.
Rationalism's influence reached beyond science, it supported the idea of unchanging laws govern politics and morality
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Renaissance pg. 796
Begins in Italy
Near East Africa, merchant families used the riches they attained from trade to support the exploration of human though and imagination such as writers, artits, phillosiphers.
Increasing demand for eastern spices, cloth, and wood created new wealth for traders and merchants. Comercial centers also prospered
Francesco Petrarch and Giovanni Boccaccio were some of the first writers to write using the vernacular
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Voyages to New Worlds
Vasco da Gama was commissioned to open an eastern route to Asia. 5 years later India merchandised with Portugal.
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In 1492, Christopher Columbus tried to sail east to create a new trade route to Asia, instead he found the Americas.
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Renaissance Authors
William Shakespeare
He probably attended the grammar school in Stratford, where he would have studied Latin and read classical literature.
Today, nearly 400 years later, his plays are performed and read more often and in more nations than ever before.
He was born on April 1564, and died on April 23, 1616
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Miguel de Cervantes
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held by pirates for five years - returned to Spain jobless and without any hope of regaining his career
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Enlightenment Authors
Alexander Pushkin
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His highest achievement was in poetry, particularly the historical playBoris Godunov
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Guy de Maupassant
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Flaubert invited the young Maupassant Which was writing poems, historical dramas in verse, and horror stories
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Victor Hugo
Well known for his strength, energy, and appetite
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published first collection of poetry in 1822,published 8 plays by the age of 38 and 7 volumes of poetry
in 1843 his favorite daughter and her husband died in a boating accident after this he only wrote for himself (for 10 yrs)
Exiled as apolitical rebel in 1852, wrote popular poetry after exile
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