Key Developments

• Renaissance

  • Philosophy and World View
    • revival of humanism
    • new concepts of self
    • new relation to God
    • syncretism – combining all of human knowledge
    • rediscovery of Arabic, Gnostic, Classical thought
  • Literature and Music
  • Art and Architecture

   

• Reformation

  • Course of reformation in England, France and Germany 
  • Counter reformation
  • Religious wars
    • warfare – finance - taxes - law

   

• Consequences of the discovery of the New World 

  • Colonization and exploitation
    • inflation - social dislocation - new introductions - new ideas
    • new forms of slavery and innovations in the plantation system 
    • effect of contact with Europeans on Native Americans 

   

• Scientific Revolution

  • Physics, Astronomy, Chemistry
  • Biology, Medicine and Physiology
  • Technology

   

• New Ideas

  • Literature and Music
  • Art and Architecture
  • Philosophy and World View
  • International Relations and Government