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?

Analyze the NORTHERN RENAISSANCE (Erasmus, More, Dürer) + Gutenberg printing press c. 1450 — with explicit connection to prior TANG-SONG CHINESE PRINTING (Bi Sheng 1040 moveable type, Tang woodblock 9th century) from G7-FALL

Examine Northern Renaissance distinctions — more religious + more literary + more print-amplified; Erasmus 1466-1536 + Praise of Folly 1511 + Greek New Testament 1516; Thomas More 1478-1535 + Utopia 1516; Albrecht Dürer 1471-1528 + woodcut + Self-Portrait 1500 + Knight-Death-and-the-Devil 1513; Gutenberg c.1450 Mainz movable-type press — CRITICALLY CONNECTED TO Bi Sheng 1040 Song-China movable-type (predating Gutenberg by 410 years per G7-Fall) + Tang Jingangjing Diamond Sutra 868 woodblock print (predating Gutenberg by 580 years); Korean Jikji 1377 movable-type (78 years before Gutenberg).

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