CHYS 3P95 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Compass, Calvinism, Renaissance Child
15 May 2018
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CHYS 3P95
Week 10. The European Renaissance
Dr. Tony Volk
Class Business
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Final paper details
- Each period we have covered
- You want to explain what happened, what changed, what stayed the same and
why?
o Why did those things stay the same or changed?
- Knowledge of going forward
- Islamic text
- What this course talks about this course going forward
o Digital media?
▪ What are the consequences to that
▪ Ex. At placement …
Renaissance
• Renaissance is French for "rebirth,“
• Describes the intellectual and economic changes that occurred in Europe from the
14th through the 16th centuries
• A period of enlightenment when artistic, social, scientific, geographic, and
religious thought turned in new directions
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Age of Enlightenment
• The ability to use reason
• The difference is that people in enlightenment is use our minds to think our way
through problems
o By using reason
Plague
• The plague was the beginning of the end as it wiped out cheap serf labor
• Devastating effect
• As incidence of the plague decreased in the late fifteenth century, populations
increased and so did the economy
• A new demand for goods and services led to a new middle class (e.g., bankers,
merchants, and tradespeople)
• Raises the living of people
• They have more money and have a higher good of service
• Having a middle, you get more money coming into the economy
Renaissance Middle Classes
• Had more disposable income
• Placed a higher value on education
• You have more money means you have more education
• To build a business you’ll need education
• Were more exposed and open to new ideas and beliefs
• Stimulated growth of cities as centers of trade, learning, and culture
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Renaissance Exploration
• One of these was the astrolabe- By measuring the distance of the sun and stars
above the horizon, the astrolabe helped determine latitude
• The magnetic compass was improved
• Maps, too, became more reliable
• Shipbuilding also improved and shifted to open-ocean sailing ships
Magellan 1521 - 1522
Renaissance Trade
• This opened up new routes to India, Africa, the Americas, and the South Pacific
• This further stimulated the economy and introduced new ideas and inventions to
Europe
• One such idea came from China- the printing press (Gutenberg 1445)
Renaissance Books
• Almanacs, travel books, chivalry romances, and poetry were all published at this
time
• Access of old information
• You’re reading about old information that someone wrote about that you
don’t have access too
• Travel books encourages people to travel
• The more people are interested in books, the more books become cheaper
• Increased degree of literacy, and therefore results in a stronger, more stable
economy (because intellectual power was distributed amongst individuals)
• It’s stronger because you have people who can make better decisions
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