Introduction to Renaissance and Enlightenment periods

a period of European cultural, artistic, political and economic “rebirth”

• Middle Ages

• Renaissance period

• Dark ages

• Enlightenment period

a period of rigorous scientific, political and philosophical discourse that characterised European society

• Middle Ages

• Renaissance period

• Dark ages

• Enlightenment period

The renaissance period started in ......................... and ended in ...................

• 1450 to 1600

• 456 to 1456

• 1685 to 1815

• 1921 to 2000

The enlightenment period started in ......................... and ended in ...................

• 1450 to 1600

• 456 to 1456

• 1685 to 1815

• 1921 to 2000

An innovation is

• a new product or process/approach

• a solution

• an invention

• new idea

a solution to an existing problem is ...........

• an idea

• an invention

• an event

• an approach

Science, Art, Education, mathematics, politics all improved during

• renaissance period

• middle ages

• renaissance and enlightenment periods

• enlightenment period

a solution to an existing problem is ...........

• an idea

• an invention

• an event

• an approach

Renaissance started in

• America

• France

• Italy

• Rome

Why is the City of Florence significant?

• It is where middle ages ended

• It is where renaissance begun

• It was economically developed

• It had many libraries