History 2403E Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Geocentric Model
18 Dec 2015
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History 2403e - england & europe 16th-17th century. Does not like email textbook is optional. Change is the single most important word in this class. This era is the middle point, it"s the point where we teeter between modernity and not. Europeans were inwardly focused, little knowledge of what lied outside of their community let alone the global world. Columbus discover the west indies in 1492. Vast majority of europeans had little notion of the rest of the world but they. Researchers have linked linguistics to geographical elevation meaning. Yet in 1715, people are very interested in what is out in the world. Holy roman empire c. 1512 also didn"t care about what was out there people didn"t move or explore. Society: hierarchically structured and static: lies in bloodlines, if you are born a king, you stay a king religion, all runs in family trees, wealth and success has nothing to do with it.
