Notes on Renaissance and Reformation

Today in class, Mr. Schick allowed some of the students who didn't complete the last textbook assignment to finish it. I was already done the assignment, so during this time, I chose to get started on my blog. Although the teacher gives us the whole class time to do our blogs, he only gave us a short amount of time today. I was not able to finalize my blog in class, so I am doing it now for homework. We also took notes on a new topic, which we will be tested on in a couple weeks. European Renaissance and Reformation. Northern Italy: birthplace of the Renaissance. Renaissance=rebirth (rebirth of art and learning). Cities were the center of the action. Milan and France had wealthy merchants and bankers. Artists were inspired by a former splendor of Greece and Rome. Merchants and the Medici. Merchants dominated political life. The Medici were a powerful banking family. They paid artists, writers, and musicians to create works of art. They were patrons. Those were all of the notes that we took in class, and that is mostly all we did today.