Northern European Literature focused more on the Catholic Church and how to reform the Church’s humanity. Even though they both wanted to see a transformation in the Catholic Church, Northern Europe was more involved with the transformation of
In early history, gunpowder provided leverage for military conquest. Today, we use gunpowder in fireworks (another invention of the ancient Chinese), military purposes to defend our country, rockets, and bullets for guns just to name a few. There are many more applications for gunpowder in today’s society. Today we use paper for our newspapers, books, post-its, notebook and journals. Paper is a major form of communication in today’s society.
Industrial Revolution Science and Technology Thematic essay Global history Science and technology have played a major role in altering the course of human history. These technologies were the printing press, the astrolabe, and the steam engine. However these advance also had many positive and negative effects on the world. One of the technology that played a critical role in alternating the course of human history was the printing press. It was invented around 1440, during the renaissance period by Johannes Gutenberg.
As J.M. Roberts stated, “In so great an empire, communications were the key to power” (p. 85). The Silk Road allowed merchants of different cultures to make overland trades, from China to the west, and resulting in the first step of globalization. In addition, the Mongols also introduced a writing system to the region and spread the use of paper money. J.M.
If Columbus had not taken the actions that he did, the people of the new world may have overthrown him and the western influence and that could have changed the world as we know it forever. This article provides a lot of information that can resolve the controversy over Western Civilization as a whole. Western Civilization is seen as a powerful influence filled with corruption and violence, but according to the article the West has been under attack for centuries. As stated, “Whether it was the Viking, Saracen, Magyar hordes plundering the Carolingian Empire, to Al-Qaida blowing up commutes in New York, Madrid or London.” This sentence shows that the West is only a superpower because it has faced so many obstacles and overcome them all. Everyone has such negative things to say about Western influence but if one of these outside forces overthrew Western Civilization, people would be saying the bad things about that society as well.
Spanish missionaries and conquistadors sought to convert the people of the New World and establish dominance overseas. To do this, they needed the labor of African slaves, leading to another mass migration. This migration helped explode the population of the New World since so many people came to the Americas with the promise of cheap land and easy living. Migration was a heavy factor in the changes to the Native American population for this migration. The people of the Old World brought their diseases with them, which took advantage of the Native Americans inexistent antibodies toward illnesses like smallpox- which brought about massive and catastrophic population decreases for the Native Americans, about 80-90%.
European nations began by establishing colonies in foreign areas to gain access to new resources that could not be easily accessed in Europe. These colonies were established in places such as India, and Africa which were fertile growing areas for spices and other raw materials that are not able to grow in the northern colder climates of Europe. With the establishment of these colonies, the rulers of the European nations such as England, France, and Germany saw a great way to make some extra money in the form of taxation. I believe that this led ultimately to the idea of Imperialism in which these nations were heavily taxing these colonies. This in turn led to things such as the American Revolution and the commonly known phrase “taxation without representation”.
Introduction In this assignment, I will explore what the print revolution was and the impacts it had on early modern Europe. I will discuss the areas which it had a transforming influence, as well as presenting the alternative viewpoint that the print revolution was in fact not the key contributor and could not have had such an impact without other enabling factors. Johan Gutenburg is widely credited with the invention of the printing press. In 1454 the first book was printed on his movable metal type press in Mainz, Germany. In fact, Gutenburg’s creation was a combination of “three innovations: a way of producing movable metal type, a new kind of oil-based printer’s ink and the wooden hand press” (Knights and McShane, 2009, p.183).
China was a country of dynastic splendor, such as the Manchu Dynasty in the 1900s, but was later on tainted by imperialism. At first, Chinese had become very advanced in many areas, like astronomy, mathematics, etc. However, due to its isolation and lack of modernization, it became weaker than the other nations. Knowing this, aforementioned nations like Japan and Europe began to spread their influence and power into China. Imperialism became a huge component of China’s history, from 1839 to 1935.
“Today, there is a popular consensus that the term ‘Renaissance’ refers to a profound and enduring upheaval and transformation in culture, politics, art and society in Europe between the years 1400 and 1600” (Brotton 9). Science was at the forefront of this expansion because of the speed at which technology advanced communication. With the invention of the printing press, education boomed and suddenly producing accurate copies of important books of the time was no longer a major time consuming process. Not only that, but now information in textbooks could continuously be updated as scholars began to better understand and learn more about their subject areas. This newfound availability of literature helped spur the movement of Renaissance Humanism.