Homework Help #3 Renaissance

School of Athens- Raphael 

Hi internet, I am so sorry about missing so many days! I have been busy. I might change the schedule for Christmas time since I am going to Cuba, and then there is Christmas so I will be super busy. But today we will be talking about the renaissance! The time after the middle ages. YEAH! This was basically the time that changed to world. Without the renaissance we would be living on farms working all day and dying at the age of thirty with no goals or values. What was the renaissance? Well between the centuries of 1400-1700s a new way of thinking spread quickly across Europe. It started in finical booming Italy. Italy was in a perfect geographic location to become wealthy. The silk route, a trading route stretching through  Asia, and Islam, crossed right through Italy and Italians started to trade products with these countries, along with inventions and the ideas of humanism! HUMANISM FTW! Italians, being the hipsters they are, were like GO US! And they started to do a lot of trading with other countries, so much they started a new class of people, merchants! This class changed the whole view of Italy. The feudalism system started to collapse and be re-birthed into a capitalist society. Why work for little pay when you can become a merchant? That was the question of many servants at that time. This new thinking made Italians start to come together into cities. And cities like Florence, Genes, Milan, and Venice were doing great.

And it didn't stop at just trading, new ways of thinking begun. The dull Europe was being transformed into an ancient greek world. Scientists started to spread the idea of humanism from university to university. The idea quickly spread to the west and North of Europe, humanism was the Instagram of the time, everyone wanted it and it was considered cool and new. even though things like wars and religion slowed down the renaissance it fought back with the printing press! Now artistes and scientist could publish there books and sell them across  Europe. These new ideas evolved into new and better things. Inventions, perspective art, school, individualism which are all  things used today. The renaissance sparked a new world full with amazing discoveries. Like the Jaconde which btw is Mona Lisa, which I had no idea and made me lose a point on my test. GRRR, I digress.

Next week we will talk about........ THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION! yea. BYEEE