Yosuke RED 8A
Oct 30, 2014
Yosuke RED 8A
Description:
• Dante Alighieri was born in Italy in 1265
and died in 1321. He was a poet, prose
writer, literary theorist, moral
philosopher, and political thinker. He is
best known for his poem “Inferno”.
Significants:
• He wrote the poem Inferno and gave
people a idea of what hell and heaven is
like.
• People started to pay money to the pope
to stop them from going to hell after their
death.
• His description of hell and heaven became
power used by the Catholic Church to
have more economical, moral and political
power. People developed a sense of fear
about hell.
Dante Alighieri
Description:
• Johannes Gutenberg was born in Germany
in 1398 and died in 1468. He was a Jewish
blacksmith, goldsmith, printer and a
publisher. He is best known for his
creation , the printing press.
Significants :
• He made the printing press in 1440.
• With his printing press people didn’t have
to publish books with hand. Which made
more copies of the book and poor people
could even get it.
• Priests use to write the bible by hand but
writing but with the printing press many
copies of the bible were made and many
people could obtain it.
Johannes Gutenberg’s Printing Press
Description:
• Christopher Columbus was born in
Italy in 1451 and died in 1506. He
was a discoverer.
Significant:
• He discovered America and brought
back corn, potatoes, tobacco leaves ,
pumpkin, strawberry, tomatoes,
papaya and chilly.
• Because of him other countries
followed him and started to explore
the world. It was the age of
discovery.
Christopher Columbus
Description:
• Leonardo Da Vinci was born in Italy in
1452 and died in 1519. He was a painter,
sculptor, architect, musician, scientist, ma
thematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist
, geologist, cartographer, botanist and wri
ter. He was a genius and his most famous
creation was the tank and Mona Lisa.
Significants:
• He designed machines that no one could
imagine in his time. The material in that
time couldn’t make the things he
designed.
• His tank that he designed changed the
way of fighting in war.
Leonardo Da Vinci
Description:
• Galileo Galilei was born in Italy
in 1564 and died in 1564. He was
a
physicist, mathematician, astron
omer, and philosopher who
played a major role in
the Scientific Revolution.
Significants:
• Galileo found out that the earth
orbits the sun with his telescope.
• His telescope and the lows of
motion changed the way people
viewed the universe.
Galileo Galilei
Description:
• Niccolò Machiavelli was born in Italy
1469 and died in 1527. He was
historian, philosopher, humanist, and
writer based in Florence during
the Renaissance. He is remembered as
the write of “The Prince”.
Significant:
• He wrote the book “The Prince” and
tried to give out ideas how to be a good
leader.
• His book inspired people in a bad way.
People used his book for evil in his time.
Adolf Hitler was one of the people who
read the book and became a leader.
Niccolò Machiavelli
Description:
• Martin Luther was born in Germany in
1483 and died 1519. He was a monk and
believed in the Catholic way more than
anyone else. But he had questions to the
church so he nailed the “(95 theses) on
the church door.
Significants:
• He initiated the Protestant Reformation.
He also wrote the “95 theses” and
nailed it on the church door in
Wittenberg.
• He influenced the shape of Protestant
Christianity more than any other person.
Martin Luther
Description:
• Francis Xavier was born in Spain
in 1506 and died in 1546. He was
a monk that spread Catholic to
the India, Japan, Borneo and
other places.
Significants:
• He and other monks came to
Japan to spread Catholic to
Japan.
• He came to Japan to spread
religion causing other countries
to come to Japan. Because of
this Europeans and Japanese
started to trade.
Francis Xavier
Description:
• Oda Nobunga was born in Japan in 1534
and died in 1582. He was the first samurai
to rule Japan.
Significant:
• He let Francis Xavier spread Catholic in
Japan. Also Samurai used to fight only with
swords but Oda Nobunaga saw the
Europeans holding a matchlock. He made
copies and made soldiers use it.
• Catholic was spread all around Japan and
approximately 30 thousand people believed
in Catholic in the 1600s. With the matchlock
we have learned new tactics to win in wars.
Oda Nobunaga
Description:
• Toyotomi Hideyoshi was born in Japan in
1547 and died in 1598. He was the
second person to rule Japan.
Significant:
• He conducted surveys of farmland to
better a certain how much rice should be
collected in taxes. He also banned the
positions of weapons by farmers.
Carrying out raids with the aim of
confiscating swords.
• He clearly divided social status of
samurai and farmers, by their jobs.
Which led to social system of modern
society. This system made society more
stable.
Toyotomi Hideyoshi