Renaissance Teaching Resources
The Dawn of a New Age Assignment DOC | [...]
Ferdinand Magellan
Aristotle first theorized that the earth was round. Columbus [...]
Europeans Explore the World
14th-century European sailors traveled beyond the limits of the world they knew to set up trading links with spice-producing lands in Asia.
Niccolo Machiavelli
Niccolò Machiavelli is best remembered for the political advice he offered in 1513 in The Prince. Machiavelli advised rulers to be calculating.
The Renaissance Spreads
The rebirth of the Italian cities attracted visitors from [...]
Renaissance Art – an Introduction
Renaissance patrons wanted art that showed joy in human [...]
Social Classes of the Renaissance
Like most city-states of the era, the people of [...]
The House of Medici
The Medici were a prominent family that produced four [...]
City-States of the Italian Renaissance
During the Middle Ages, the Holy Roman Empire controlled [...]
Johannes Gutenberg and the Printing Press
A good cook can take leftovers and turn them [...]
Humanism
Humanism During the late 1300s, some European scholars began to [...]
The Renaissance – Dawn of a New Age
In about 1450, European scholars became more interested in studying [...]