Early modern Europe

but even going as far back as a few decades we can see that many aspects of our civilization have changed throughout the course of history. The spark of a single movement on a timeline can change the time it takes to tell the story. The story of the modern west begins in my eyes during the Renaissance era closer to the…

The renaissance/early modern period was a time of a global revolution for the benefit of humanity. At the time, the church had dictated the production of language, and communication. Society had rekindled; reborn with all the changes implemented in the fresh new century that had just begun (1300-1700). Majority of the world had been living, or still trying to adopt the “Western Civilization” style of life. It was seen as a modern thing to do at this current time period, and if you weren’t living…

within Italy from the 14th to the 17th century. This timeframe is a bridge between the ending of the Middle Ages and the beginning of the Early Modern Period. Among the most important causes of the Renaissance, trade expansion to and from Italy and major artistic developments played significant roles in propelling and spreading the movement to other parts of Europe and beyond. (Trade) In 1095 (SOURCE) Pope Urban II helped to close one door on the Dark Ages and open another for Italy to…

Introduction to European Art:- European art is an art, which is the biggest and most distinguished within the United States. With a broad range of paintings, sculpture, and attractive arts from all over Europe, the gathering includes works covering nearly all historical periods from Ancient Balkan state and Rome up to 1950. The European assortment was inaugurated with the gift of a gaggle of a hundred master paintings from newspaper power James Scripps in 1889. Once years…

the welfare states in Europe, Charles Tilly makes a bold and influential claim that states formed as a result of war-making and preparation for war which “created the internal structures of the state” (Tilly 76). In his work, Tilly acknowledges that the key factor in the development of European states was military rivalry and incessant warfare. Tilly’s quote, “war made the state and the state made war” explains the reduction of the number of states in early modern Europe; only the states that…

During the Early Modern Era between 1450 and 1750, the first global economy was established as the economies of the Americas and Afro-Eurasia became integrated. Goods began to be produced for a global market and many new groups gained power and influence due to the expanding world economies. Trade also began to be considered as a profitable venture, especially with the European ideology of mercantilism, and new exchange routes were sought out. The first global economy developed because Chinese…

A few years later in 1529, the Ottoman Empire’s serge into Europe was halted at Vienna. The zenith of Ottoman domination had been reached, but they were still a threat. Ottoman dominion reached Mecca in the south and Hungary in the north. Indeed the fact that they had comparable technology to the Europeans via Janissaries, plus there greater manpower reserve furthered this. Therefore both of these events had large ramifications in Europe, but the greater of the two was the former. By looking…

the beginning of the Modern World? There is no real date that delineates the so called Middle Age from the Modern World however, there are several reasons why this takes place around the 1500’s more specifically 1453. In 1453 the Byzantine Empire was supplanted by the Ottoman Empire. The Ottoman Empire restricted trade along the silk road and banned trading of coffee and ceramics by outsiders yet, this is not the only reason infact, there are at least 8 reasons why the modern world begins…

There were many factors that contributed to the uneven growth of urban centres and culture in Europe between 1500 and 1650. This essay will consider the impact of climate change, geography, the economy, religion, war, and the changing political landscape in Europe in this period, with a view to identifying the main factors that led to the changes at this time. There was no one thing that caused the changes but a combination of all the factors above. It could be argued that climate change was…

Despite the heretical view of Eriugena’s writing by subsequent Christian philosophers, the Early Middle Ages made great strides in the area of logic. In fact, Spade (2016) notes that one may regard the Early Middle Age as being: one of the three great, original periods in the history of logic [and] the peculiarly medieval contributions to logic were developed and cultivated to a very high degree. It was no longer a matter of interpreting Aristotle, or commenting on the works of the “Old Logic”…