Renaissance

=__Black Death__ = = = = =
 * Year: 1347
 * Location: Messina, a port the Northeastern shores of the Mediterranean island of Sicily.
 * How it spread: Fleas contained bacterias bit rats. Then, bacterias grew inside rats' bodied. People who bit by contaminated rats or fleas got the disease.
 * Symptoms: Black, egg-sized lumps, oozing blood and pus, formed in the armpits and grooms of afflicted men. Boils and blackened spots dotted their bodies.
 * Reaction by people:
 * 1) People sang and danced wildly in churches' graveyards and hoping to drive evils spirits away.
 * 2) People blamed on Jewish, massacred them, burned them alive. Jews were attacked by dogs.

 =__Renaissance __=

The Renaissance means re-birth. After Dark Ages, people started to think about ancient Greek and Roman culture. Learning and learning started again. As a cultural movement, it encompassed a revival of learning based on [|classical] sources, the development of linear [|perspective] in painting, and gradual but widespread [|educational] reform. Traditionally, this intellectual transformation has resulted in the Renaissance being viewed as a bridge between the [|Middle Ages] and the [|Modern era] Enlightened vision that church no longer had power only humans over there own lives.

 __**The Beginnings of the Renaissance: (How, where, when, who):**__

After Dark Ages, the years 1300 to 1600, Renaissance started in an Italian city called Florence.

**__Michelangelo:__ (1475-1564) **
He born at March 6, 1475 in Coprese Italy. In six years old, his mother was dead, so he grew up without affection. His father strongly disagreed that he became an artist. He studied human body to make his working better. He was not only a painter, he's also a sculptor, poet, and a architect.

Michelangelo's famous artwork: It had a series of biblical events. Pope had asked him to paint the church || || The Virgin Mary and Jesus Christ. represented the death of christ. || || The most famous sculpture Michelangelo made. It is also his most accurate statue for a human body. ||  ||
 * The Sistine Chapel.
 * Pieta at Saint Peter.
 * David.
 * Bacchus.
 * __**Sistine Chapel** __
 * **Pieta**
 * **David**
 * **Bacchus** ||  ||

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__**Leonardo Da Vinci: **__


He was very talented in many things including painting, inventing,Enginering, sculpture, and education. Considered as a perfect example of ideal Renaissance man. Leonardo was born in 1452 in Italy and was one of the most famous artist during the period of Renaissance. People called him an almighty genius. His family was rich, but he could not get love and enough educations in his childhood. When he was 14, he became a pupil of Andrea del Verrocchio to study art. When Andrea saw Leonardo's painting, he got surprised and shocked. After that, Andrea stop painting pictures and concentrated into sculpture.


 * Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci** was an [|Italian] [|polymath], being a scientist, [|mathematician], [|engineer], [|inventor], [|anatomist], [|painter], [|sculptor], [|architect], [|botanist], [|musician] and [|writer].

Da Vinci's famous artwork: One of the famous picture of Leonardo Da Vinci was the Mona Lisa. || || Represented as the last day Jesus and his followers with him before he was crucified ||  ||
 * Mona Lisa.
 * The Last Supper.
 * **__Mona Lisa__**
 * **__The Last Supper__**

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__Other Accomplishments:__

An ideal Renaissance person has to be social, literate, music,and art, speaks another languages than Latin, and does exercise.
They were perfect and successful. They should have different kinds of knowledges in different social fields. They were to be Social and outgoing so everyone new them

__What is Humanism? __
After the Black Death, people started concentrated on human beings live in the Earth instead of religion. Humanism is focuses on human achievement.

__The Printing Press:__ (What was it? How did it work? How did it change the world forever?)
====In the middle of the 15th century, Johannes Gutenberg, of Maiz in Germany, introduced movable print to Europe. The metal letters were arranged in trays to make up the words and lines of text, inked and put on the press. the press had printed the first bible, ====

 
