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RenaissanceRenaissance -- Grade 8 -- Internet Resources
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MCPS Homework Resources
http://www.mcps.k12.md.us/students/homework.cfm

Renaissance note template
http://www.mcps.k12.md.us/schools/forestoakms/site%20pages/Academics/social%20studies/renaissance.xls

Bits o' History - Renaissance Links
http://www.schoolmarm.org/historybits/renaissance/

Life in Elizabethan England: A Compendium of Common Knowledge 1558-1603
http://renaissance.dm.net/compendium/home.html

Annenberg/CBP - Learner.org Renaissance
http://www.learner.org/exhibits/renaissance/

Medieval and Renaissance Food Homepage
http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/food.html

15th-Century Renaissance Art
http://witcombe.sbc.edu/ARTHLinks2.html

National Gallery of Art --Tour: The Early Renaissance in Florence
http://www.nga.gov/collection/gallery/gg4/gg4-main1.html
 

Use the resources above to answer the questions below.

Industrialism

Choose one of the following people,  places or events  to help answer this question:

How did the expanding markets and trade of the Renaissance influence European culture?

 

Guilds

The Merchant Class

City States of Italy

    Florence

    Genoa

    Venice

Styles and Fashions

New Foods/Luxury items

The Medici Family

 

Humanism
Choose one of the following people,  places or events  to help answer this question:
How did new beliefs in humanism promote achievements in the arts and sciences?

Artists
Leonardo da Vinci
Michelangelo
Donatello
Raphael

Writers
Sir Thomas More
Erasmus
Martin Luther

Scientists/Inventors
Galileo
Johannes Gutenberg

Nationalism
Choose one of the following people,  places or events  to help answer this question:
How did the contributions of political leaders  Renaissance strengthen their nations?

Henry VIII
Elizabeth I
Ferdinand and Isabella
Isabella d' Este
Francis I

Communication
Choose one of the following people,  places or events  to help answer this question:
How did the increase in communication among people help spread the ideas of the Renaissance?

The Printing Press
Northern v Italian Renaissance
The Prince
William Shakespeare
Miguel de Cervantes

 

MCPS Social Studies

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