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Gunpowder was a very big invention in this time period because they needed this to make cannons. They used gunpowder for many things including dynamite and other explosive things like cannon balls.
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Food in the renaissance was different depending on your social status. If you were a peasant then you usually ate soup made of leftover scraps and other vegetables.
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Trade had a lot to do with the renaissance. Trade Made it to where people could travel all over the place and take other cultures back to the place that they came from.
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The church raised money to make the church higher up in the political ladder. They raised money through practices like simony and they raised money by selling indulgences to gullible people.
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Education in the early renaissance was mainly focused reading, writing, and math. Most of the education was taught to men and boys because they thought women should just be housewives.
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He was a very nig patron of the arts. He bought many paintings in his lifetime and he also sold a lot of paintings for other people.
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Donatello was a very famous sculptor. He sculpted the statue of David and that became very famous.
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The printing press was a very big discovery for the renaissance. The printing press was what made Luther's 95 theses spread to other places.
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Lorenzo De' Medici was a big collector or antiques and was a patron of the arts. He eventually became the ruler of Florence and this made an even bigger patron. http://www.themedicifamily.com/Lorenzo-de-Medici.html
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Michelangelo was a very famous painter and he painted some of the most famous paintings. One of his most famous paintings was the Sistine chapel ceiling.
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The Mona Lisa was one of the biggest paintings that Da' Vinci ever did. Before he did this painting he did the Last Supper
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He was the one that painted the Mona Lisa. He revealed his masterpiece painting in 1506.
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Raphael painted the school of Athens he was a very important painter. After he painted the school of Athens he became a very famous painter.
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The church had a lot of corruption before the reformation. They thought that they could control the whole catholic religion with all of the power that they had.
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The Reformation spread to a lot of different countries. It spread by people coming to Italy and them taking back different ideas after they leave.
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Luther said that the only way that you can receive salvation is from justification. which means you have to devote yourself to god to be able to go to heaven.
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The church had a lot of political conflicts as well. They fought with the kings and the queens on who had more power over the other and the church held more control.
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Luther wrote the 95 theses and he posted them to the churches door. He wrote these because he thought that they were not right to sell people indulgences.
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The Microscope was a big discovery in the renaissance. This helped scientists study organisms and this helps them know more about the human race.
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The flushing toilet was a big invention because this started to let people have cleaner homes. It was one of the best things to ever come to the renaissance.
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Shakespeare was one of the biggest literary artists in the renaissance. He wrote many different poems including Romeo and Juliet.
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Macbeth was a very big book back when the renaissance was still going. He wrote this book with a lot of political context that went into it because the lower people wanted to overtake the kings
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The submarine was another big invention because this led to the people that had the submarine win wars. This invention helped because this could help scientists study the wonderful world around in the ocean.
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One big literary work was the book that Galileo published. He wrote that the earth was not the center of the universe because the earth rotated around the sun.
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Another huge discovery was when Galileo discovered that the earth was not the center of the universe. He said this to the church and the church sentenced him to life on house arrest.
http://www.biography.com/people/galileo-9305220
