Renaissance Dbq

What does the word “renaissance” mean? It means “rebirth” or “revival” and the Renaissance was a period of change that began around 1350 to 1700. Before the Renaissance, there was the Middle Ages which people had little education and were more religious. Then, in the 1300s there was a movement called humanism which made people more educated and drew them into arts, literature, science, and medicine in the Renaissance. In the mid-1400s the printing press was made and gave humanism have even more momentum because more people could buy books. how did the Renaissance change man’s view of the world? The Renaissance changed a man’s view of the world in three ways: emphasis on individualism, emphasis on embracing this life(yolo), and emphasis on

Both Doc C and D are about reason and experimenting. In Doc C there are two Universes, one called the Geocentric Universe by Ptolemy and the Heliocentric Universe by Copernicus. Geocentric means ‘earth-centered’ and heliocentric means ‘sun-centered.’ Ptolemy’s Universe was made up while Copernicus relied on reasons. In Doc C it states, “Ptolemy (tol-eh-mee) was a Roman astronomer who lived in Alexandria, Egypt, shortly after the time of Jesus. He developed a theory of the universe that was adopted by most scholars during the Middle Ages. The Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus lived from 1473 to 1543, Relying mostly on mathematics and observation, he developed a different understanding of the universe.” The Church was upset about Copernicus because they believed that the sun revolves around Earth but they were proved wrong. In Doc D there are two pictures of the human body one that is based on Zodiac signs by Johann Regiomontanus and the other is based on a real human body by Andreas Vesalius. In Doc D it states, “A woodcut called ‘Zodiac Man’ from a book by German astronomer Johann Regiomontus, 1512 and a woodcut from the anatomy book On the Makeup of the Human Body by Belgian physician Andreas Vesalius, 1543.” The ‘Zodiac Man’ is what people believed in the Middle Ages and the zodiac signs controls different parts of the body. The human body by Andreas Vesalius was based on his research and experiments. In Doc D it states, “The image on the left reflects the Middle Ages belief that each sign of the zodiac governed a certain part of the body. For example, the constellation of the stars called Aries the Ram controlled the head. The illustration on the right was based on the research done by Andreas Vesalius, who dissected human corpses to better explain the human body.” This shows how the Renaissance changed the view of the world because of reasons, facts, and