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Factors that Led to the Renaissance - Coggle Diagram
Factors that Led to the Renaissance
Increased Interactions
European nations
Major European nations also started sailing to the far reaches of the earth during the Renaissance.
Silk Road
The Silk Road and the Crusades are two major factors that led to increased interactions for Europeans with the rest of the world.
Knowledge
Ideas, information, and goods found their way back to Europe and contributed to the development of the riches of Italian cities and expansion of knowledge in Europe.
Rediscovery of Ancient Texts
Different culture
When Constantinople (Byzantine Empire) fell to the Ottoman Turks, many Greek scholars fled Constantinople before and after the fall of the City due to the Ottoman menace, They went to Italy, where they were welcomed. They took with them many books and manuscripts written in Greek.
Express in texts
European thinkers redelivered ancient Greek and Roman ideas and texts. Many of these ancient texts were preserved by Islamic and Jewish cultures in the Middle East and were not rediscovered by Europeans until the time of the Renaissance.
Innovations
Literacy
With the mass production of books and other literature more poor and middle-class people in Europe began to read, which improved literacy. Other great innovations, like the Nautical Compass, also had significant impact on the Renaissance.
Invention
The invention of the printing press allowed these new ideas to spread and further enhance the overall Renaissance.
Renaissance Art
What artists focused on in Renaissance
However, in the Renaissance, European artists were inspired to create paintings and sculptures that focused more on the realities of everyday life and real people. This was likely due to the influence of humanism that helped spark the Renaissance.
Style
:Another dramatic innovation that led to the Renaissance was in the artistic styles and methods used by Renaissance painters. Today, the Renaissance is perhaps best known for the famous artists and their famous works of art.
Fashion before Renaissance
Previous to the Renaissance, in the Middle Ages, art was much more stylized and focused on religious themes. This means that the art in the Middle Ages displayed humans and the world in a more unrealistic but stylized fashion.
Rise of Renaissance City-States
Manor System
They also became a model for organization of people after the death of the Feudal System and Manor System.
Center of Renaissance
We learned that Italy was the center of the Renaissance due to the wealth and development of their major city-states. These states became wealthy and powerful due to the trading that occurred during the late Middle Ages.
Effect of literacy and art
These states became wealthy and powerful due to the trading that occurred during the late Middle Ages. They became the center of new architecture, art, literature, mathematics, music, philosophy, politics, religion and science.
Humanism
In general, Renaissance Humanism was the study of ancient Greek and Roman texts with the goal of promoting new norms and values in society. These norms and views varied from those at the time because they focused less heavily on a religious worldview. Instead, Renaissance humanists such as Petrarch used ancient texts to promote a worldview based on logic and reason.
