Unit 3 (Unit 6 in textbook): Rebirth and Exploration: The Renaissance and Rationalism: 1300-1800
- Historical Background
- The Renaissance in Western Europe
- Status and Security
- Kings Up, Nobles Down
- Humanism: Out of the “Dark” Ages
- The Reformation: From Debate to Bloodshed
- The Globe Explored, the Earth Displaced
- The Age of Rationalism: From Lore to Law
- Rationalism and Nature: Mud Baths and Artful Foliage
- Rationalism and Science: Falling Apples and Orbiting Planets
- The Industrial Revolution: Steam Flexes Its Muscles
- Rationalism and Politics: Experiment and Explosion
- The Bubonic Plague
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kScxc9DPrnY
- Literature
- Renaissance Literature: A Branch of Rhetoric
*Class notes attached to class page*