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• Causes and Effects


  • Changes and continuities
  • Transition from Middle Ages → Renaissance
• Causes


  • Art
  • Age of Exploration
• Causes of Age of Exploration

  • Glory
  • Money=land=power
  • They want their kingdom to be more powerful
  • God
  • Wanted to spread Christianity
  • Fighting spread of Islam
  • Gold
  • Wanted to get rich→ fight more wars
  • Intellectual curiosity
  • Humanism, renaissance
• Effects


  • Columbian exchange
  • Northern Renaissance
  • Art
  • Criticism of the Church by Christian humanists —> UNIT 2: Reformation
• Protestant Reformation
• 95 Theses
• Causes/Effects

  • Counter Reformation
  • Religious Wars
• Effects


  • Division of Church and state (starting)
• How did Europe change/stay the same after the Middle Ages?


  • Change: Catholic Church not as powerful, move away from feudalism → market economy, new monarchies (centralization) - nation states, revival of classical texts→ humanism and individualism, literacy increases b/c of printing press
  • Continuity: Predominantly Christian, gender roles are the same, small middle class-most people are poor, monarchy is the main form of government, Christianity vs. Islam
• Italian Renaissance


  • Bright colors
  • Religious classical themes
  • Secular humanism
  • Italian peninsula
• Northern Renaissance


  • Dark colors
  • Religions + self portraits
  • Christian humanism
  • Northern Europe (English, Germany, etc.)
• Reasons why Christian humanists critiqued Catholic Church


  • The way the Church handles money = corruption
  • Incompetence of clergy