HIS 111
Unit 14: Renaissance, Reformation and Exploration
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Raphael Santi's The Holy Family (The
Madonna with Beardless Joseph), 1505-06, tempera and oil on canvas. The
Hermitage Museum
in St. Petersburg has one of the finest collections of Renaissance art
in the world. That is largely a legacy of the wealth, power and collecting
prowess of Catherine the Great in the eighteenth century.
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What you must do in this unit
What you can do in this unit
Some videos that you can watch for this unit
- See the videos dealing with the Renaissance, Reformation and Exploration in the HIS 101 course.
- For extra credit please suggest to your instructor a relevant video for this unit of the course. Send the title of the video, the url and a brief explanation of why you find the video interesting and applicable to the material that is being studied in this unit.
Extra Credit Options
- Take the short 5-point quizzes for chapters 16, 18, 19 and 20. Log into Blackboard and look under "Chapter Quizzes." You have five minutes to complete each quiz (multiple-choice questions).
- For a maximum of 50 points extra credit, read the excerpts from Columbus Journal of his voyages and write a one-page
paper (Do these excerpts provide historians with any useful information
about the native societies of the islands that Columbus reached?)
- In a one-page paper, assess the significance of the
Medici family for Renaissance
Florence for a maximum of 50 points extra credit.
- For a maximum of 25 points extra credit, read the Council of Trent: Rules on Prohibited Books and in a paragraph explain what the Church was attempting to do with these regulations.
- For a maximum of 25 points extra credit, after reading The Discovery of North America by Leif Ericsson, c. 1000
(from The Saga of Eric the Red, 1387), write a paragraph in which you assess whether it really matters who "discovered" American first.
- For a maximum of 25 points extra credit, read the excerpts from Giorgio Vasari (1511-1574), Leonardo da Vinci, and write a long paragraph in which you explain how da Vinci was a perfect expression of the Renaissance ideal.
- Read Luther's
95 Theses and answer the
Luther
study sheet
questions for a maximum of 10 points. Please write in formal, complete sentences.
- For extra credit of a maximum of 10 points,
you can submit the answers to the De Las Casas study questions. Please write in formal, complete sentences.
- For extra credit, please suggest a
relevant website for this unit of the course. Send the title of the site, the url and a
brief explanation why you find the information interesting and applicable to
the material being studied this unit.
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