Looking ahead, now is the point in the course where we return to a more traditional chronological approach. Our next unit will include the Renaissance and Protestant Reformation. This will involve shifting gears a bit, but I am very pleased with our progress thus far, and think you have all demonstrated the skills needed to be successful in the class. I'm excited to go back into the deeper recesses of Europe's past and show you (for example) how a 21st-century controversy over secularism is rooted in the violence associated with the Reformation period.
Tuesday
- In-class: exam
- Reading: Merriman, 44-62
- Due: 3-part summary (see below)
- create a 3-column chart that illustrates the economic, social and political structures common to the Italian city-states
- write term ids for the following:
- merchant capitalism
- populo grasso, mediocri, minuto
- Medici
- Sforza
- Scholasticism
- Humanism
- 1-paragraph response to reading question: Describe how the economic, political and social environment of the Italian city-states led to the rediscovery of classical knowledge?
