New Age

the Middle Ages The era of knights in shining armor and princesses living in castles, or better known as the middle ages, a transitional period, took place between 300-1500 A.D. This era has been divided into different sub periods: The Byzantine Empire or The Early Middle Ages, and Late Middle Ages. Preceding the middle ages was the fall of the Roman Empire, which led to the Holy Wars then causing a major shift in religion (Phyllis and Eurbank). Europeans began to explore, discovering new…

The age of exploration was a time of exploring the unknown and adventuring the seas looking for new routes to cities that were too harsh to traveled by land. It was the time where the conquerors of Spain and many Europeans countries adventure them self into the new world as they later called The Americas. Conquerors were looking for three things in specifically, gold, glory, and tried to spread their religion from their home country. Explorers after landing in America they look to establish many…

The Jazz Age in the 1920s was filled with many different aspects that morphed the United States into a more modern and advanced country. One of the most impressive parts of the Roaring Twenties and the Jazz Age was the new style of literature being published. The literary modernism, which developed in the 1910s and 1920s, was built on the foundations of realism and impressionism of authors like William Dean Howells and Sherwood Anderson.1 These more modern authors that emerged in the 1920s,…

Humanism destroyed barriers that once stood strong. Its new philosophy provided individuals with their own fate, the ability to decide what their life would be. Its ideas first emerged in Ancient Greece where the Greek city-states, poleis, flourished in the Golden Age around the 400s BCE. Later, after the near collapse of civilization, the aforementioned philosophies reemerged in Italy during the Renaissance of the 1400s CE. The two philosophies relate so similarly, in that, during the rebirth…

used the term "Dark Age" to describe the period in Europe after the fall of Rome. Even though some stated it was in a dark age, it was more in a period of growth. Why it is more in a period of growth it is because there were good things happening like new universities built. Europe is more in a period of growth than a dark age. Europe was not in a dark age, more of a period of growth because of some good things that happen. For example, Document C discusses that there were new inventions being…

ideals their predecessors throughout the Middle Ages had emphasized, revamping concepts of the individual in their works. In particular, they focused on realistic depiction of new subject matters, deliberate creation using artistic abilities, and importance of human ideals. Contrary to religious figures of the Medieval Ages’ art, in the Renaissance, patrons of the arts began to commission artists to create art about classical themes. The medieval ages were times when strong ties between artists…

It was the rebirth of new ideas and new theories. The Renaissance also helped art and literature expanded to more meaningful and livelier art. The Renaissance lasted from around 1350 to the 1700’s. The Renaissance originated in Florence and it spread from Italy to western and northern Europe. The transition between the middle Ages and the Renaissance are significant and Document A can show that. In Document A it shows two different pictures, one picture is from the Middle ages and the other…

Gilded Age was a period between the 1860’s and the 1900’s characterized by social and economic change and defined as the period amongst the Civil War and World War I. During this time, America saw a rise in industrialization, a growth in technology and advancement in economic opportunities. At the same time, it should be noted that there was a lot of social and political corruption in America as well. During the Gilded Age we see a rise in the economic elite (the one percenters). The Gilded age…

The Stone Age What is the Stone Age? The stone age was named Stone Age because the people in this time period used stone tools. It has two very like and very different time periods. They are called the Neolithic (new), and Paleolithic (old) eras. They have very diverse rituals and ways of life. Things like the way they access food, the homes they live in, the tools people used, and what they spent their time doing. Paleolithic Era The Paleolithic Era--A.K.A. Old Stone Age--was the first…

Salvador. It was the start of new technological advances but the start of disease spreading across the world. The Columbian Exchange was also the start of one of the most significant results of the Age of Exploration and the First Global Age. This was a start of a New World (Americas) and it influenced technology, farming, disease, and cultural life for both the New World (the Americas) and the Old World (European, Africa, and the Middle East). These influences to the new era that’s had many…