Renaissance Pottery! Final Project.

I did my project on renaissance pottery, creating my own figure out of clay to reconstruct a similar piece. Indian renaissance pottery tended to be lower temperature and unglazed, just like my model. This was typically until the modern times. They would fire the red clay and with the reduction of oxegyn the clay would turn black. These renaissance potters revolved around the Native American familys in the Southwest. The Native American Renaissance pottery usually included fine line painting and "corrugated whiteware".  All different groups designed similar yet different things.  One colony used mostly red and black clay, that would be the San Idlefonso and Santa Clara groups Taos and San Juan made lovely clays for pots.  Most colonies or tribes coated their pottery with pine pitch. Pine pitch was a fnial coating to keep the pottery stronger. European: Ceramics in northern areas first appeared in about 4000 BC and, except for a brief period during the Roman occupation, continued the low temperature unglazed handbuilt tradition until the twelfth century. Renaissance pottery typically were pitchers and pots for all types of things.  Being made of things such as red and black clay, they did not glaze these creations.  They were not "easy" to make but it was a popular hobby that many people involved theirselves in.

      

The Age of Exploration

The Age of Exploration lasted between 1418 and 1620.  There were several countries that affected this time period.  They included to be Portugal, Spain, the Netherlands, England and France.  These countries all had something in common, that would be the spread of their religions.  They would send out ships around the world to continue and disperse their religions.  Not only did they use it to spread religion but also to figure out the rest of the world.  Often times being so far away the people didn't exactly know what was going on out there in the world. They also found better routes to travel on this way.  Ever head of A.O.E? Well A.O.E. was used to find better sea routes through out the world.  This was a big thing for explorers because with every discovery there were more riches & fame.  With all the searching, it became almost like a race, and the people fought for the fame & riches. BRI WILLIAMS

The most important explorers, in my eyes, were Christopher Columbus, Ferdinand Magellan and Hernand Cortes.  This is because these explorers all discovered things we still involve ourselfs with to this day.  I would say that Ferdinand Magellan was the most important explorer because he sailed around the entire world.  Along with that he figured out that the world is round.  Christopher was second, being the founder of America.  Hernand explored Mexico and found out much information about the Aztecs that are included into our history until this day.

If I were living in the Age of Exploration. I would take the advantage of being a explorer therefore, if I was successful I could be very wealthy.  The trading for me would be an advantage because the amount of discoveries and tradings were increasing.

Merchants were huge in that day.  They were very successful and making much money lead to more voyages.  With all the more voyages they discovered more items that still exist in history.

The Mysterious Fall of Rome

The exact reasons for the fall of Rome were never exact.  Many conflicts arose shaking the empires stability.  The well known conflict was the raising of taxes.  Raising their taxes caused so many people to go into dept and not be able to pay their taxes.  Not paying taxes sent the citizens of Rome to prison.  Some people blamed the merchants for the raised prices and overall high prices. Sometimes, taxes were so high that people would sell their children to pay them off! The merchants being, basically, the only wealthy citizens.  Another reason for the fall, the laziness of people. Large numbers of the population stopped working; the unfortunate group of people spent much of their days doing nothing productive.  These people usually spent their days at bars, drunk, and even in the backs of theatres.  Followed by the fact that Rome's military was collapsing.  They were so pathetic that they could barely protect themselves.  Leading to the attack from Germany. The Germanic tribes may have been one of the main causes for the fall of Rome because they tore apart the city, making it worse because the Romans could not even defend themselves.  Some believe that the fall was caused because of little communication. The emperor did not do his job well; therefore, he never spoke with the village.  When he should have had town agreements with everyone, or voting’s, he just choice what he wanted.  Causing many people to rebel because some may have been against the emperor’s rules.  Another reason could be that Constantine converted to Christianity.  This threw off the whole town, causing sickness, resulting in many deaths.  Overall, historians do not know for sure exactly, what took down the Roman Empire to this day.  Yet, the story may have sounded very negative but possibly the whole dramatic down fall lead Rome to something better, as of today.  Today Rome stands tall and strong, still being known as the "Queen of the Earth", a very well respected place.

The Astronemer & Mathematics

Astonemy was huge for the Muslims, they made it big.  Muslims had many uses for astronemy, like compasses and astrolobes were used to locate direction, mostly of Makkah.  These helped those who were praying to pray in the correct direction.  Ramadan figured exact times for prayer.  Eventually, they realized that the Earth rotated.  many also questioned the fact that the Earth was the center of the universe.  Soon they found the Earth travels around the sun.




The Muslims also enhanced mathematics.  Basing things off of ideas from India and Greece.  One scholar, Al-Khwarizmi, was a mathematician and astronemer was best known as "the father of algebra".  The word algebra comes from the title of one of his books.  Alegbra was used to solve problems with unknown numbers.  Al's book on algebra was translated into Latin in the 12th century, being the most important mathematic text in the European universities.Muslims learned fractions, decimals from Indian scholars.  To this day we still use Arabic numerals.

Relationship between Islam, Judaism & Christianity

In the start, many Arab pilrims were converting to become Islamic.  As Muhammad developted a new Muslim community, more Arabs converted to Islam. As for the followers of Muhammad they were told to respect the Christians & Jews.  All these religons believed in one god, called the "People of the Book". The Islam religon spread wide across Arabia.