AP European History / Unit 1: Renaissance and Exploration
1.1 Contextualizing Renaissance and Discovery
Notes
From about 1450, Europe saw the Renaissance (revival of classical learning), the printing press, stronger monarchies and overseas exploration, after the crises of the 1300s (the Black Death, the Hundred Years' War, the Great Schism).
Practice
The Renaissance was a revival of:
"Rebirth."
A crisis before the Renaissance that reshaped Europe:
1340s.
The Renaissance began in:
Italian city-states.
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