Early Modern Time Research Paper

The Spanish exploration of America brought many new foods, types of plants, and many forms of wealth to the European world. However, the wealth that was brought from the Americas came at a cost. The suffering and enslavement of the Native people and the transportation of Africans to America to be used as slaves alongside the Natives. Many motivations were used to support this extraction of wealth and treatment of the Natives and Africans, however two are easily verifiable. The Spanish colonization from 1492 to 1700 was motivated by religious conversion of all peoples in America and the desire for wealth and profit that had a significant impact on the lives of Native Americans and Africans.

The printing press revolutionized the world as people now know it. Since kids humans have learned through books, and documents. But what if they would never have them? Would humanity still be illiterate and isolated, just focusing on religion?. The printing press was created by Johannes Gutenberg in 1450 giving people more books to read, the alphabet, and religion with the bibles he printed, making a huge jump on people's education. Even though the printing press was really influential in exploration times, it was more influential in the reformation era.

    The printing press inspired the most change in society between the 1300’s and 1700’s when it helped spread religion, scientific ideas, and literature. Before Johannes Gutenberg's great invention in 1456, books and documents had to be hand written. Printing 600 pages a day seemed like the impossible. In 1456 there was 1 printing press, then by 1500 there were 250. If it wasn't for the printing press everything would've stayed in slow motion.

The 1400’s was a time of the Renaissance, which was a change or rebirth in the Italian culture of art, politics and philosophy. Petrarch created a universal concept that changed the way people thought which was called humanism. Humanism is when people start to focus on the values and interests of humans. This idea started to spread with the help of the printing press which was a machine that made printing literature easier. Writers and artists were able to spread their ideas of humanism across Europe during the Renaissance through this machine. Artists like Raphael showed humanism with his painting of “The School of Athens”, Michelangelo’s sculpture of “David” and Leonardo Da Vinci’s “Vitruvian Man”.

After the Americas’ existence became known to Europeans and the wealth that they contained, European states became extremely interested in making as much profit from the Americas as possible. Spain is among the first European nations to begin to send what is called conquistadors to the Americas for the reasons as the Spaniards said to teach the native population Christianity, for glory for the Spain, and as well to gain material riches from the discovery of precious and valuable metals such as gold. Coming and settling in the Americas were not easy tasks. The conquistadors attempted, with some success to for the native population to labor in their behalf, but this eventually proved to be a failure. Spaniards needed to fill that labor

The Middle Ages was the period in European history that came between ancient and modern times. It lasted from about ad 500 to about 1500. The Christian church played an important part in the history of the Middle Ages.

During the 1400 to 1500s, Europe had new developments due to numerous reasons. First of all, there was a revival of classics from the Greco-Roman era. These texts were pre-Christianity, thus talking about human’s lives in the here and now verses talking about their lives in the afterlife. This eventually led to the development of humanism, where people appreciated their lives. The more texts, the better they felt and the more they wanted to learn. People wanted to become educated in various subjects. Additionally, they saw what Rome was like and wanted to be better than Rome. With that, they also wanted to find trade routes and new land because they wanted to learn more. The revival of the classics allowed people to study the old maps created

The 1500s were a time of great change in art and society. Consider what historic and social forces were present in Europe and driving that change. Be sure to mention in your discussion:

During the classical era, civilizations around the world, including China, India, and Rome, underwent a period of immense political and cultural change; these changes paved the way for the past and future cultures to influence the world today. However, in India, a notable amount of change was seen in a relatively short time; the amount of transformation can almost be compared to civilizations that have lasted twice as long, such as China. Indian civilization, between 300 – 600 CE, continued as a Hinduism-based society with large amounts of trade, a patriarchal familial structure, and a caste-based social structure.

Copernicus, Galileo, and William Gilbert are all big names, but they were scientists or philosophers who lived during the Elizabethan Era. There were many more and the all observed the world around them and made studies based on those observations. Subjects varied on what they studied but it all came back to the view of how the world around them worked. They made many amazing discoveries that has impacted the world today. There were many views and discoveries of the world during the Elizabethan Era, though each had an impact on the modern world.

In this essay, I would like to find out how has daily life changed since 1800. In the first part, I will summarise the life in 1500-1800 according to the Blainey chapter. I would like to mainly focus on the issue of agriculture, the issue of hygiene and the issue of housing. And for the second part, I would like to describe and reflect on what I think the most significant differences between life in the 1500 – 1800 and life today.

Within a generation of Columbus’ death, Spain had taken control of most of the New World. They thrived on ideas of power and conquered the Inca. The Spaniards moved further west and found the Aztecs, who had a population of two hundred thousand people. The Spanish conquered them in two years. The Spaniards did not always treat the natives with so much disrespect, though. The Columbian exchange allowed for new materials, foods, and more to be brought to and from these worlds. Cattle, pigs, goats, and more were brought to the Americas from the Old World. Various plants that had been accidentally imported from Europe caused a lot of damage to the ecosystem in the Americas. The Americas gave Europe things such as corn, potatoes, yams, and much more. Spanish explorers eventually continued to move west in search of their precious gold, and still kept with their idea of killing any natives that stand in their way, until they reached New Mexico, where the Spaniards decided to live with the Native Americans in peace. The Spanish colonists were often a selfish group of people who took what they wanted from natives and tried to force them to convert away from their own religious beliefs, then killed them off, then finally decided to live with them after killing hundreds of thousands of natives over the years.

Throughout history, there have been many different eras and ages. There was the Medieval era, the Renaissance, the Baroque period, the Neoclassical period, the Classical age, the Romantic period, and finally, Realism. The literature and art during each one of these time periods reflected the beliefs and ideas of that time. Almost all of the art and literature of these eras emphasized either fantasy, the gods, or the upper class. The ordinary or poor people, if they were even painted or written about, were portrayed in a very dull way, they were depicted without much dignity. Especially in the Classical period, any pictures of someone who was of a lower class or poor was painted in an exceedingly sloppy way especially when compared to a painting

The Renaissance wasn’t a place, even though it was born in Italy, it was a state of mind, or rather change of mind. The Renaissance grew from those who survived the Dark Ages and Black Death when people thought fate ruled life and there was little hope for change. The people wanted new reasons to live. The intellectuals of the Byzantine Empire left for Italy, a long time trading partner, and brought with them ancient classical texts that Europeans thought were gone forever. The foreign influx with their treasures caused a clash that created a rebirth, a renewed interest in the old. Without the printing press, the Renaissance wouldn’t have transformed the world in such a dramatic way. Print made ancient manuscripts official. Print changed how

The Renaissance was a time of rebirth and expansion for religious interpretation scientific discovery exploration of new lands and the flourishing of the arts. It was a period between the 14th and 16th centuries that devalued the medieval era before it. In favor of a new and brighter era that would draw inspiration from the Greek and Roman traditions of antiquity. A great paradigm shift from the dark medieval times occurred it would produce innovative thinkers as Nicholas Copernicus, Desiderius Erasmus. Also, the Renaissance artists that would become some of the most recognizable and well-loved masters Michelangelo, Raphael and Leonardo Da Vinci in the world. The Renaissance took place primarily in Italy but its innovation and ideas reached