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IH Mind Map- cause of Renaissance - Coggle Diagram
IH Mind Map- cause of Renaissance
Long term causes
Crusade
Religious war who fight for the Holy Land, Muslim and Christian war
Muslim goal is to control the Holy land and Middle East
Location of crusade- Jerusalem
fight for the land Jerusslem
Christian won, but lost the 3rd Crusade
Christian faith challenged --> develop of humanism
Increase interaction between religious
Spread of religion to Europe
More inspiration in development of artistic and technology
Art is important during renaissance, it communicates about the ideas of patrons, represent them; wealth, social status, identity, politicals, rights
Art and technology inventions changed people's beliefs on religions and gods. Spread ideas and inspire others. However, the creations of arts are mainly inspired by Ancient Rome and Greek, therefore causing the Renaissance where beliefs, thoughts and citizen actions e.g. jobs are changed.
Lead to spread of religion, share and inspired by religion from religion
As for the Crusade happening, it allows different religions to complete trades, communicate and exchange culture, and that religions can gather and collect the power of having team members/ allies.
Black death
Killed 1/3 of Europe's population
A plague pandemic
Estimation of 75-200 million deaths
Decrease the amount of people being slaves due to death of slave owners
increase humanism and individualism
increase different career paths
artist, inventors
Affect places
North Africa
Italy
Spain
France
Austria
Hungary
Switzerland
England
People abandoned the family/ community
People do this action in order to prevent themselves from getting the plague black death, people do migrate and travel to other places--> this also spreads the plague to more and more places as some infected person brought the plague elsewhere.
Lesser people believe in God due to the fact that they don't seek help from god when Black death, according to Khan Academy, people believe in "God is deaf nowadays and will not hear us"
Develop humanism where people trust more in themselves
Develop beliefs to decline and reject feudalism/ feudal system
A lot of deaths that caused shortage of labour. People are then forced to work instead of commanding people with lower social status.
More manpower then improved the city's wealth and growth then expanding the growth of manufacture and factories to increase trade in the city.
Feudal system: slaves nobel etc.
Feudalism is where the King or the person at the top of the Feudal Pyramid relies on others that are lower in Feudal pyramid level to help and provide wealth etc. for him, work for him
Feudalism and the connection with Renaissance
Because of the decline of feudalism, slaves and labour are free/ liberated from their original owners/ boss and that it changed people's beliefs and thinking, more and more support towards individualism and humanism
Short term causes
Renaissance men
E.g. Leonardo Da Vinci
A men who is both an inventor, artist, polymath
Who drew "Monalisa"
Monalisa --> A famous artwork that is iconic towards the period of Renaissance.
Famous for representing individualism and secularism (Individual of religions where they are not connected and that decrease the trust due to not having much culture)
Through this artwork, different religions got inspired by and then they did more connection with other religions, therefore expanding the amount of believers as more and more culture developed
He was the first to make real studies of flight (flying machine)
--> Show that humans can rely on themselves where it proofs the point of how humans can also fly
During renaissance, Leonardo Da Vinci helped to guide the citizens and develop their thinking like humanism and cancel feudalism etc. Through his creation of arts and inventions.
E.g. Raphael
A painter, famous for the artwork "The school of Athens"
This artwork is iconic to the era of the Renaissance because it reflects and shows the culture and the current belief of Religions and thought at that time e.g. the support to humanism and rationalism
A renaissance men who affected the renaissance through his artwork that includes Renaissance elements, events and ideas e.g. intelligence and nobility.
E.g. Michelangelo
Artist, poet, architect and creator of statue of David
Is a representation of Florence, relates to Renaissance because it represents individualism and represent strength and power -->Feudal system
E.g. Shakespeare
Playwrite, poet, actor
A person who brought Renaissance into theatre plays
E.g. Hamlet, the characters inside the play do represent humanism and starts the idea of nihilism; nihilism= Action and belief of rejecting to support all religions and not becoming a believer of any religions
Support humanism
Created different stories and characters that represents humanism with wealth and politics
Spread knowledge of Greek and Roman classics
Influence others
Renaissance men creates work (art, plays, inventions) that supports and represents some cultures, beliefs and religions during the renaissance that were wild spread and influence people to trust them. (E.g. humanism)
Rise of city states
Florence
Most wealthy city
Citizens support individualism
Develop art
Trades wool--> wealth and rights of political
Center of intellectuals
Venice
Have maritime power; power and politics to be responsible for the ocean
A place to spectate the crusade
Trade silk, spice and grain
A wealthy place with development of music
A place to pass by for trades
Milan
Great development of agriculture and own wealth
Famous for manufacture of silk and creation of weapons
capital city of region of Lombardy (A place in Italy)
Print press
Spread ideas
Invented by Johannes Gutenberg
He also published Gutenberg Bible
To spread information, knowledge and thoughts quick and more wild spread. Increase efficiency and popularity
Merchant classes/ families
Medici family
They ruled the city of Florence during Renaissance
Represents and develops the belief of humanism
Patrons of artists, support development of artistic (art & music)
Medici family are bankers, merchants, wealthy, and that they obtained rights and power to command people like slaves
Dominate politics, rule Europe with high political, wealth, economic and social ranking
Visconti family
associated with Pope Urban IV
Help and improve development of Milan
in Milan
Noble family
Have power and high social status
Sforza family
in Milan
known for military power, being patrons of arts and have connection with Leonardo Da Vinci.
Defeated/ fallen by Visconti family
Produce two famous soldiers
Have connection with Leonardo Da Vinci, Da Vinci painted art for the Sforza family
Este family
in Ferrara
known for being patrons towards arts, support poets and scholars, and political power
Ruled parts of Italy and Germany
family first came to the lead in the wars between the Guelfs (Guelphs) and Ghibellines
Strong military powers, defend during crusade
Humanism
Human control ≠ god centered
Believe in human potential
Caused by the influence of Ancient Rome, medici family and other leader's politics, art and technology development
Because of the event black death, residents and the population pray and beg god to help, though it doesn’t seem like help was provided, therefore more and more people suspect god, and with the medici family and other merchants occur, humanism started to be developed
Classical heritage of Greco-Roman Culture
Ancient Rome had an impact on the culture during Renaissance, and a lot of manuscripts were about the artwork.
Ancient Egypt also changes and inspire people’s minds and how they think and gave bravery to the people to support humanism and challenge religions and beliefs
Development of art and technology and rise of universities
Art: Monalisa, statue of David, The school of Athens etc.
Due to the black death, people start to express themselves through art and music, creating the development of artistic to support culture
Technology: Flying machine
Inventions was started when the crusade war, people got curious about different religions like astronomy and math etc. And then the print press and flying machines were developed and spread ideas, developing the trend of technological innovations
Universities give people a chance to become scholars, they get to learn how to think therefore have the power to challenge religions and god
Universities study:
Math
Helps artists to learn about the dimensions and perspectives to better create artwork
Allow new career opportunity; inventor
Inventors can used the knowledge to create inventions and help the society
Allow people to understand trade and do business (merchants and traders)
Astronomy
Allow people to explore the world, do experiments and unlock/ solve curiosity
Give help and support to inventors to create inventions
Law
So that people understand what is right and wrong to do at that time period; people follow rules
Medicine
To save citizens, surgeons
renew interest of ideas
Philosophy
To teach and enable opportunities for scholars to think individually and follow their on options instead of follow commands or other's point of view
Humanities
Teach current beliefs, spread knowledge, gain more support to certain beliefs and religions
History
Teach quotes, rules, provides inspiration to unlock new beliefs, thoughts etc. Gives insights on what to do and take certain actions, also to choose correct choices.
Studying also allows scholars to understand ideas from Ancient Greek and Rome, causing wild spread of old ideas, one reason of causing renaissance
Purpose of universities: train more scholars, support the idea of "balance" in human ( to reject feudal system), train manpower, labour and improve thinking
Other facts/ information
Pope
Pope aren't allowed to be female
Pope is a general name or "title" where they are leaders that are chosen to continue Jesus's ministry.
During the time period of the Renaissance, Pope Leo X, originally named Giovanni de' Medici, was the Pope leader of Christianity
Some of the Popes are from the Medici family who supports art, architecture and making the community in order and with peace
Some memorable people/ characters during renaissance
Niccolo Machiavelli
Powerful and influential person with politics in Florence
Known for developing the foundation of modern political thoughts, help leaders to rule the city
13th - 17th C
Rebirth of Ancient/ classical Rome + Greek
Long term causes affect Renaissance more, short term causes were events happened while long term causes were happening.
Renaissance was "rebirth" after the influence of Middle East
Renaissance is worth knowing about the era Renaissance because it is a significant event that caused change in art, knowledge, culture, religion as well as giving the new generation inspiration in thoughts and beliefs.
Blue= what I learned, other colours= What I found out