Grade 7 Spring — The Early-Modern World c. 1450-1750 CE in Six Simultaneous Formations: Italian + Northern Renaissance, the Reformation and Wars of Religion, the Scientific Revolution, the Age of Exploration with Zheng He Precedence and Multi-Perspective Encounter, the Conquest of Mexica and Inca from Indigenous Perspectives, Ongoing Indigenous Resistance through Pueblo Revolt 1680 and Itzá Maya 1697, the Atlantic Slave Trade Origins with African Voices Centered, the Mughal Empire (KS3 Non-European Society Study), Ming/Qing China with Zheng He 1405-1433, Tokugawa Japan, and the Ottoman Empire — Whose Renaissance? Whose Discovery? Whose Conquest?
History · CUL
G7
hist.g7.s.cul.italian_renaissance_humanism_city_states_medici
Analyze the ITALIAN RENAISSANCE c. 1300-1550 — humanism, city-states (Florence, Venice, Milan, Rome), and the Medici family's patronage system
Examine Italian humanism (studia humanitatis — grammar, rhetoric, poetry, history, moral philosophy from classical Latin and Greek sources); identify Florence, Venice, Milan, Rome as five major republican/ducal city-states with distinct political structures; analyze Medici banking + papal alliances + patronage system (Cosimo de' Medici 1389-1464 + Lorenzo il Magnifico 1449-1492); contextualize Renaissance women's restricted but real participation (Christine de Pizan 1405 retrospective + Sofonisba Anguissola 1532-1625 + Lavinia Fontana 1552-1614).
Mastery threshold
90%
Min instances
12
Typical minutes
50
Spaced intervals (days)
1, 3, 7, 14, 30, 60
Prereqs
- Construct a SIX-FORMATION SIMULTANEOUS chronology of the Early-Modern World 1450-1750 CE placing Italian Renaissance, Mughal India, Ming/Qing China, Songhai West Africa, Ottoman Empire, Tokugawa Japan on one timeline — refusing the Eurocentric 'Renaissance/Age of Discovery' single-narrative framing
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hist.g7.f.cul.medieval_europe_as_one_region_among_many
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Successors
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hist.g7.s.cul.northern_renaissance_printing_press
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Common misconceptions
- Believing humanism replaced religion — most humanists were practicing Christians; humanism added classical-text-study to religious life
- Treating Florence as the only Renaissance city — Venice (maritime republic), Milan (Sforza ducal), Rome (papal), Naples (Aragonese), Genoa (banking) all participated
- Believing women were absent from Renaissance — Anguissola and Fontana painted professionally; Christine de Pizan had earlier; gender restrictions WERE real but participation existed