Life During The Renaissance

What would man’s everyday life be like if the Renaissance never happened? Would we still think that the Earth is the center of the universe and our bodies are affected by the zodiac?Throughout the Renaissance, people got many new ideas, some of which altered their view on everyman (meaning mankind). Mankind made improvements on realistic art and people who looked more real. People also learned about themselves more, in a physical sense. After some doctors decided to research the insides of people, they learned a lot about how we work. People began to think more about religion and it was altered greatly in the process. The pre-Renaissance age human anatomy greatly differed from the Renaissance age anatomy of man. Before the Renaissance, people …show more content…
This altered man's view of man and religion. Before the Renaissance all of the planets that people could see used to be thought of as rotating around us (Earth). Eventually, some people during the Renaissance figured out that the idea of Earth being central may not be the truth.We saw proof of this in Document C because there is a diagram from before the Renaissance where the earth is in the center and everything including the sun, planets and zodiac constellations. There was another diagram in Document C that had the sun in the middle with us going around it and the other planets going around the sun at a farther distance, that was not quite accurate, but it was a great leap of knowledge. This also shows that during the Renaissance, the change from belief of us as the center and the sun as the center of the universe occurred during the Renaissance. When the people of the Renaissance figured out that the Earth was not the center of the universe, it really snapped people to the reality that we may not be as important as we thought we were. At first, the church thought that they were going against religion, which was stated in the notes that went along with Document C and that they were not being loyal to the church. This made it very hard to get the concept of the Earth not being the center out to the public because the Roman Catholic Church …show more content…
We think that during the renaissance, people as a whole began to have a greater understanding of humanity, they began to change society for good. Without the Renaissance, we would now live in a world with less knowledge of the human body, darker, gloomier and less realistic art along with literature with very different views on society. We would most likely have a different set of religious beliefs, specifically around space and the Earth’s place in it all. What would life have been like without the advances made in the renaissance?We think that without the Renaissance, we as a global society would be practically lost because we would view ourselves and the world so