Major Factors in History Effecting Western Civilization
Major Factors Effecting Western Civilization
Major Factors Effecting Western Civilization
Since the beginning of modern man there has been continuous progress and advancement in how we as a race live and interact. It can be argued that since man became cognizant of his ability to overcome difficulty and improve the quality of life with the use of reason that this progress moved forward ceaselessly. History is filled with examples of incredible advancements, technological, educational, governmental, and societal. Some are attributed to a specific invention and other are to a period in time and each of these are complex enough to warrant a doctoral thesis.
The Renaissance was evolving into an ideal and materialistic society, where education becomes more available-individual achievements in science, art, philosophy, and literature continues to this date. With the development of the printing press, the availability of books to all class stratification with the writings of William Shakespeare, with creation of characters such as Romeo and Juliet and Othello. No one-individual new human nature as William Shakespeare did. Literary undertakings of Thomas Moore, with his writing of Utopia, where the inhabitants work only six-hour days, so that they may all have leisure for intellectual pursuits, such stories were not found prior to the Renaissance, but are in effect in now in libraries and institutions all over the world. Scientific accomplishments of the Renaissance period are international in scope with great art works of Michael Angelo and the Sistine chapel. Leonardo da Vinci and his visions of machines, with his tremendous talents as an illustrator allowing him to draw his mechanical ideas with clearness, five hundred years after they were put on paper, many of his sketches can easily be used as blueprints to create perfect working models of today. As much as the Renaissance has made contributions towards western civilization so has
The reformation.A division of European religion; it gave to western civilization the diversity in choice of religion that was not available from the past medieval strong hold of the Catholic Church. It gave rise to nation-states and a chief factor in the evolution of royal absolutism, which still remains in some European countries. Germany, the original home of the Reformation, was reduced to a state of distress by the Thirty Years’ War, and the German Empire was thereby dislodged from the leading position which it had for centuries occupied in Europe .The Reformation also brought upon one of...