The+Bubonic+Plague+and+the+Italian+Renaissance

-Renaissance  -Insightful cultural movement  -affected intellectual life in the 1500-1800’s (early middle ages)  -literature, science, philosophy, art, religion, and politics  -Began in Italy in the 1600’s and slowly spread to the rest of Europe  -unstable political period; revolts  -Medieval Warm Period à Little Ice Age  -Black Death (bubonic plague)  -mortality rate of thirty to seventy-five percent  -symptoms: headaches, muscle weakness, aching, malaise à progressed to buboes (hence “Bubonic Plague”) swollen over the lymph nodes in the neck, armpits, and groin areas à internal hemorrhaging caused the skin to become black from internal bleeding  -victims died within 3-7 days  -Lowered population  -remaining population was richer, well fed, and had more $$ to spend <span style="color: #aeff00; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> -spent on art + architecture, higher demand for products, less 2 manufacture <span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings; msoasciifontfamily: Calibri; msoasciithemefont: minor-latin; msochartype: symbol; msohansifontfamily: Calibri; msohansithemefont: minor-latin; msosymbolfontfamily: Wingdings;">à put lower classes in higher esteem