DARK AGES
- between the fall of the Roman Empire and the Renascence and the fall of the Eastern Roman Empire
- western civilization was at the lowest point
- medicine and treatment use of nature was considered black magic
- the only people who were literate was clergy
- scientific discovery was quashed as heresy
- Catholic Church destroyed all the great books of the Greeks and Romans
- left Europeans with no knowledge except folk cures
- science and mathematics were suppressed
- ignored all the European literature and obviously filled with Bible figures.
- a time of superstition and ignorance
- arts and learning flourished during the middle ages
- example: the fabulous cathedrals and churches
FRENCH REVOLUTION
- lifted the feudalism and creation of the republic
- people were able to now explore new ways to live and work
- men were given rights and equality
- people had the power to overthrow their monarchs
- monumental social advancements
- an important place in the age of Revolutions and the Enlightenment period (example: American Revolution)
- Philosophes like Voltaire and Montesquieu came to life
- It also proved that the old regime in France could not work anymore
- many of the Enlightened thinkers that inspired the ideas of the revolution
INDUSTRY REVOLUTION
- technology forged during the time brought abundant food
- more births and fewer deaths, growing economy, and an increase in standard of living
- industrial revolution had long term effects, with goals that changed and progressed
- resulted in factories
- increased manufacturing of goods and a rise in technology
- technology changed and developed that made differences to people's lives
Below are some results of industry revolution:
1. Technology:
- starting with the printing press
- invented in Germany in 1440
- used to create copies of the Bible
- steam engine-----the major reason that industrial revolution spread
- the Renaissance introduced a new way of thinking
- humanism placed the emphasis on the human, rather than God
- people moved to the cities
- education improved
- transport changed - rail and canal networks
- warfare became industrialised
- Copernicus introduced the idea that the earth revolved around the sun, not the opposite and it was radical.
- Navigation techniques improved
- i was more necessary to find the best trade routes
- this led of course to the "discovery" of the Americas.
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