Humanities 104 Mid-Term Essay By Andrew Hart I believe the Industrial Revolution, which took place in 1760 – 1830, was the most influential event as well as milestone to how our businesses, corporations, companies, markets, and basically everything operate today. The Industrial Revolution was a time of great change for the world. Manuel labor was replaced with machines, animal and human power were replaced with new sources of energy such as water and steam, the introduction of new and large amounts of raw materials (iron and coal), and the development of new transportation methods all paved the way toward a new age. The Industrial Revolution introduced machines to textile manufacturing, iron, printing, papermaking, and engineering industries. The iron and textile industries, along with the development of the steam engine (James Watt in 1763), played central roles in the Industrial Revolution, which also saw improved systems of transportation, communication and banking.
It is true the three G’s of attraction to Europe was Gold, Glory, and God and remains to still be a strong force behind the world today. Gold can be classified as wealth that explorers sought in order to strengthen their kingdom or empire. This was done in hopes of overpowering other nations and gaining ultimate trade powers. Glory stemmed in the form of jealousy over others accomplishments and prompted rulers to gain popularity by any means necessary after all fame and fortune motivates many. The third G is God and Christianity is a major governing belief of the European nation.
The conquest of Granada proved to be invaluable for Ferdinand and Isabella, and highly significant in the short term, granting the Spanish people a new found sense of unity and pride. Not only did the conquest provide the Spanish royals with more lands and titles, but also vast amounts of wealth, prestige, and the brief integration of Catholicism in an Arab culture. This laid the foundations for Spain’s great golden age, with the discovery of the new world being funded by spanish coin, leading to the expansion of the Spanish empire . Religious unity was finally upon Spain, after the eradication of Jewish and Islamic customs, resulting in a spanish peninsula that solely followed the customs of Rome and the Papacy. Thus Creating the biggest power in Europe, both economically and militarily, and arguably becoming the world’s first superpower.
Along with the invention of the printing press in the mid-fifteenth century, the Renaissance artistic developments spread to other parts of Europe and started the creation of the Northern Renaissance. Religion played a big part in both the Italian Renaissance and the Northern Renaissance, which is one of the biggest similarities in their art. With the central idea of Humanism, both Italian Renaissance and Northern Renaissance emphasized man and individualism. However, they were different in many ways due to the culture, social, timing and the geography differences. For example, while the early Italian Renaissance abandoned the traditional Gothic style during the 15th century, the Northern Renaissance didn’t break out from it so quickly due to a host of social and political reasons including the Reformation.
He had always wanted to sail the open seas and explore and he did in fact that. Columbus had a lot of impact on the early explorers is successful journeys. If it wasn’t for him I wonder if anyone would have had the curiosity to travel or explore the “New World” or “America” as we call it today. All this research makes you ask yourself all these questions, like if we would have the freedom we have today, would anyone from Europe would have traveled to “America”? These are all the questions that have come to my
Early Modern society during the 17th and 18 centuries can be considered as revolutionary in many ways. Early Modern society progressed scientifically, philosophically and politically in terms of ideas. Many people living during that time period considered the drastic change an era called the Enlightenment. There were many scientific, philosophic and political ideas of the 17th and 18th centuries that helped shape our world to what it is today. One advancement during the early modern word that was widely discussed was the scientific revolution.
Having heard the rumors of wealth and riches in the Americas, many conquistadors were motivated to have a journey. The journey by the conquistador Hernan Cortes in 1519 is a prime example. For the conquistadors, their aims were to seek glory for themselves by conquering civilizations such as the Aztec Empire and the great Incan Empire. During the
Historic Essay In 1492 Christopher Columbus sailed from Spain overseas to the Americas, as everyone knows this expedition-started America. In the early 1900s the United States was becoming a world power. Our first show of imperialism was our appearance in WW1 in 1917 and carried on through today. When we annexed Hawaii we also annexed all of its sugar plantations, which gave us an economic, boost it. The reasons we are so justified are that other countries have done it before, it creates world dominance, and it creates an economic boost.
This issue of national security as a root for imperialism was mentioned in Henry Cabot Lodge's "Our Blundering Foreign Policy." Religious reasons also propelled imperialism. Missionaries sought to convert the inhabitants of foreign lands by convincing them that, "what we have is better." It's a new zeal that actually got the imperialism ball rolling. In fact, missionaries made the first contact with Hawaii in the 1850s to Christianize the islands, and at this time we learned of its perfect sugar-growing
ENLIGHTENMENT New technologies combined with new approaches to seek knowledge made science the backbone of the progress of civilization. Great leaps in science brought with it a new philosophical movement called the enlightenment. People started to examine things that were happening with reason and observation thus the 17th century is known the century of reason. For hundreds of years European ideas were based on religion teachings and ancient theories. Many people during the enlightenment produced new theories which in many occasions came to confront religion teachings.