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**1/17/21**
Kelli McKenna Humanities 1-13-12 6C
 * // The French word “renaitre” means rebirth. The Renaissance was a renewed interest in ancient Roman and Greek learning. //** **//It approximate dates where 1350-1600. The Renaissance began in Florence because they began trading. Through banking and trade families such as the Medici family gained wealth. Lorenzo Medici was a patron or supporter of the arts, so scholars and artist flocked to Florence. Humanism is the concern for human interests. Believers in Humanism emphasize or value human interests.//**


 * // A patron is a person that //****// supports, protects, or champions someone or something //** . **//Leonardo da Vinci’s patron was Lorenzo Medici.//** **// Great paintings Leonardo created were the last supper, and Mona Lisa //** . **//Besides painting, other expertise da Vinci renowned for were engineering, music, and the natural world around him. Three-dimensional perspective is a technique that seems to create three dimensions on the flat surface of a painting. Perspective made Renaissance paintings see more realistic than paintings of the Middle Ages.//** **//Michelangelo was an artist that lived from 1475-1564. He created great sculptures and paintings. One painting that he created is on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in Rome show scenes from the bible.//**


 * // The verb “reform” means to change. So, the noun “reformation” means a movement beginning in Europe in the 1500’s. //** **//People named Protestants were named such this because they were protesting on Luther’s side. They were protesting against the Church of Rome. The Protestant Reformation occurred when Pope Leo X ordered Martin Luther’s writing s to be burned. As a result many Germans left the Roman Church and sided with Martin Luther. The chief complaint of German monk Martin Luther was the sale of indulgences//**. **//An indulgence is a pardon from punishment for a sin in exchange for an offering//**. **//Johannes Gutenberg invented a movable type. It is a type of printing device. It speeds up the creating of books, so more books can be made faster.//**


 * // English King Henry broke away from the pope because the pope would not let him be divorced. The name of the church/religion that he helped found was the English Church, which he changed to the Anglican Church. Henry VIII became richer and more powerful after this split because he gained wealth through the Anglican Church. //****// Queen Elizabeth was Henry VIII’s daughter. //** **//The accomplishments she is//** **//well known for are leading her people through difficult times. She chose to make England a protestant nation. The talents and accomplishments is William Shakespeare is known for are writing 37 plays and 154 poems. He wrote Romeo and Juliet, which later became a huge hit.//**