Renaissance (jan 21, 1300 – nov 9, 1700)
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Italy had become the source of contact between Asia and Europe with constant contact with Greece. With the creation of the printing press, ancient Greco-Roman thought began to spread through the port cities of Italy such as Venice. Artstyles, such as old Roman sculpture focusing on the ideal human body began to flourish in Italy, along with architecture, philosophy, mathematics, medicine, and more. Humanism would make its first appearance here, a less religious but individual centered attitude that focused on education and self-achievement. During this time there was great social mobility due to this belief in self-driven success. Due to trade with China and the Middle East was the center of wealth for these port cities, the merchant class quickly became the new lords so to speak, creating guilds which controlled the trade and banks to make world trade easier. These were the true heads of the city and created policy which would allow them to make the most money they could. Eventually this wave of thought would work its way all the way through Europe into the early 1700s.
The Scientific Revolution would occur during the second half of the Renaissance, between, roughly, 1550 and 1700. This was a new drive by many philosophers such as Copernicus, Galileo, Newton, and more worked to understand the physical world outside of the Church, which branches directly from the humanistic belief of self education and success and focusing on the current world and life instead of the afterlife in Christianity.
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