In
great periods of painting,
such as the Renaissance in Europe, the wealthy who could afford to hire artists often subsidized major religious
works as
appropriate to the scale of their own palaces and as gifts to religious institutions.
Examine
appropriate reference and fiction and nonfiction resources,
such as How Things
Work by David Macaulay and The
Great Wall of China by Leonard Everett Fisher, in order to develop a list of basic tools and simple machines and answer
such research questions as: What are some tools and devices that have been invented to make life easier?