is for Astronamy

For thousands of years people thought that the sun was circling around the earth until the renaissance.But when the the ptolemy came a greek astronomer who lived during the first century CE told his idea of the universe.The astronomers threatened the worldview of their time and how people looked at the universe.

is for Brunelleschi

One of the leading artists and engineer  named Brunelleschi and was best known creations were the Florence dome.Brunelleschi used experimentation and applying mathematical principles.The dome sparked the renaissance age and inspired all of Europeans and artists and was viewed as a brilliant artist.

is for Crusades

The Crusades had eight religious conflicts that began in 1095 to 1291.They were fighting for the right to control the holy land between Christians and Muslims.That created hatred and dislikes about each other.

is for Furnaces Drake

He was a master thief who worked for Queen Elizabeth the first.He was sent on a voyage to America and brought along several monarchs from the richest territories that he

visited  from is expedition.To english people he was viewed as a hero but to Spanish he was a criminal and a

thief.  

is for Education

During the Renaissance humanism played an Important role in the education.Humanism in the Renaissance believed that humans could dramatically be changed by education.Then people started to make schools to teach their ideas and wrote about educations.

is for Florence

The artist's,architects,thinkers and political figures who led to Renaissance were born on fertile soil in and around Florence.Florence is known as the cradle of the Renaissance and wonderfully preserved a city with wealth of art and architecture that remain in the cities great treasure.This incredible cultural movements of the Renaissance transformed not only in Florence but eventually in the whole Europe.

is for Giovanni Caboto

Real name john Caboto was an Italian born navigator who explored the Newfoundland for the english in 1497.Caboto was extra credited because he was the first European to land on North America.He made a voyage from Bristol with one ship but he was forced back because of food shortage.

is for Humanism

During the renaissance there was a change in political, social,economic,cultural society shift. Humanism was one of the cultural  changes.Humanists thought that learning classical greek roman culture helped them in their own time.

Michelangelo was a sculptor, painter and architect widely considered to be one of the greatest artist in the renaissance period.His work demonstrated a blend of Psychology insight,physical realism, and intensity never seen before.He thought that spiritualism is the path to god instead of church.

M is for Michelangelo

is for Jacques Cartier

First French explorer Jacques who claimed the land we call Canada  for France.He helped France claim St Lawrence river and Newfoundland.Cartier became a hero for his country but he died because of a plague known as a disease in 1557.  

is for Johannes Kepler

Johannes kepler was a German astronomer,mathematician and astrologer.Kepler was best known for planetary motion and for his books Astronomia nova,harmonics Mundi, and epitome Astronomie Copernica.He had some laws for the planetary motion that earth’s movement around the sun is constantly changing whenever it goes around the sun.One of his discoveries was that a radius vector joins any planet  to the sun sweeps out equal lengths of time.

is for Leonardo De Vinci

Leonardo was an Italian polymath of the renaissance whose interests were inventions,drawings,painting, and sculpting.He used the humanist method to influence and started to carefully studied Bible for himself and then came to a conclusion that bible should be their spiritual guide rather then the church.he thought of the parachute idea one hundred years before it got invented.

is for Medici Family

The house of Medici family was an Italian banking family that first began to gather prominence under Cosimo De Medici the lord of Florence in the republic of Florence.While growing Cosimo had the best education available to them in the 14 century and grew up with a sense of respect and classical knowledge.They had a major influence on growth of Italian renaissance through their patronage of the art and humanism.

is for Nicolaus Copernicas

During the renaissance Nicolaus was a mathematician and an astronomer who formulated model of the universe and placed the sun in the middle rather than the Earth in the universe.He created a designed the heliocentric which means a drawing that shows that the sun is stationary all the other planets go around it.Unfortunately for him he awoke out of a stroke looked at his book of the universe and died peacefully.

C is for Christopher Columbus

Christopher Columbus made four trips across the Atlantic Ocean from Spain.He was determined to find a a direct water route west from Europe to Asia but he could not accomplish that.Instead he accidentally stumbled on America.

is for

Johannes Gutenberg the inventor of the amazing printing press.The printing press allowed people to spread large information Quickly.Since the printing press was invented books were cheaper and more people could read and increase knowledge.