Western Europe's Renaissance Beginnings
11th Grade · Social Studies · 60 min
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Learning Objective
I can analyze the factors that led to the transition from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance in Western Europe.
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The Renaissance was a period in Europe between 1300 and 1600 driven by man's search for meaning.
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Italian humanists were unique because of their focus on the humanities, such as history, literature, and moral philosophy, and they believed antiquity was morally superior to their current times.
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The rise of the middle class and the Great Plague led to increased individualism, and figures like the Medici family in Florence used art and scholarship to signal their legitimacy and compete with other city-states.
