The+Renaissance

The Renaissance Notes: 1. Began in city-states of Northern Italy. 2. The classics - Anceint Greece and Rome. 3. Art, Leonardo da Vinci and Michalangelo. 4, Literature, Petrarch - sonnet, Miguel de Cervantes - Don Quixote, and William Shakespeare - Hamlet. 5. The Printing Press. 6. Age of Exploration 1400s - 1700s Worldwide trading system. 7. Voyages, Bartolomeu - Cape of Good Hope (Africa), Vasco de Gama - around Africa to India, Christopher Columbus - the Americas, and Ferinand Magella - around the world. 8. The Protestant Reformation, Return to the simple faith, Martin Luther.