Early modern Europe

The Renaissance (French for Rebirth) was a period in European civilization. The Renaissance also witnessed the discovery and exploration of new continents, the decline of the feudal system and the growth of commerce, and the invention or application of such potentially powerful innovations as paper, printing, gunpowder, and mariner's compass. Many ideas and inventions were created during this time period. One big aspect of this period was humanism. Humanism was initiated by secular men of…

industry, and government has been reached” by Dictionary.com. Our modern culture, Western Civilization, was completely built by an institution that is ironically criticized by society today: the Catholic Church. Woods manages to do a great job of defending his thesis through three themes: Church and State, Faith and Reason, and Religious Pluralism. These three themes enabled the Church to impact many and create a more modern civilization. The relationship between the Church and State…

The age of Exploration and Conquest was a time of change. Discoveries and conquests during this period had major effects on the ways of life and caused many changes for many people. One of the things that changed during this time was the idea of slavery. There are many things that caused a change in concept of enslavement. Factors most important in shaping European views of the relationship between race and freedom were the expansion of the Ottoman empire, racial superiority/inferiority, and…

farmers, merchants, and explorers. Early Vikings travelled to and colonized Iceland, Greenland, and even areas around Newfoundland. Had the Vikings ventured south towards the eastern coastline of North America, colonization of the land would soon follow, and this alternate event would have been better than what actually occurred in history. Originally, the Vikings were a group of Germanic peoples that lived in the Scandinavian mainlands well before the common era. Early Nordic civilizations…

The oldest treaty invoked as a part of the cause of WWI was the treaty of London in 1839, which secured Belgian independence and perpetual neutrality. The five of the biggest nations involved at the outset of WWI: England, France, Germany, Prussia, and Russia signed treaty of London. The British pursued the treaty in order to ensure that France would not annex Belgium, as well as to create a neutral buffer between the British Isles and Germany. In addition to the treaty of London in 1839,…

World history as a professional disciple has been fluid. From the time when world history became a disciple until modern day, there is not one uniform consensus on how historians should look at the past. The modern historians Jerry Bentley, Ross Dunn, and Peter Stearns all add to the world history conversation by taking what world history had been and attempting to improve how students and historians view world history. While all three historians take a different piece of the world history…

The 1800’s was a time period when Europe and other countries were adjusting to the transformations of the movements occurring globally. The Latin American Independence movement had impact on the European movements. The French Revolution was one of the European crusades that had a major effect on the people of Latin America. The time period from 1806-1825 is known as the independence era. Many colonies yearned for their freedom from their mother country. Research will demonstrate the importance…

Around the world, couple having children at the early age. ¬ Reduced consumption- the world population in developing countries consumes more food than other countries. ¬ Immigration- people had spread unevenly around the world. 81% of the humans in this world live in Asia, Europe, and North America. Most people would like to move and live in crowded cities around the world. ¬ Loss of plants, animal species, and…

Mirto Mr. Dormer Global Studies 10 5/08/15 Nationalism and Imperialism played a huge role in the outbreak of World War I. Nationalism is the modern concept that people who share the same customs, culture, language, and history should share the same government. It became the most powerful European political ideology of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Imperialism is taking over a country or territory by a stronger nation with dominating political, economic, and social life…

The most well-known explorers of the 1400-1600s are John Cabot and Cabeza De Vaca. Cabot did not originally go to find America. He simply wanted to find a better trade route to get from Europe to Asia. Now this was a good idea, but he ran into a problem, literally; he ran into America. With finding America, he had become, “the first European to find and describe North America since the Vikings,” (American Journeys). It has been guessed that he took notes but that none of them were found because…