Many concepts first emerged during the centuries of the Renaissance, as well as events and people. During the Renaissance period, many different cultures would modify their religious beliefs; for example, “.. the Chinese reconsider the age-old teachings of Confucius, the Muslims enter into wider activities than those known to the Koran, and the peoples of India attempt to found a society in which historic Hindu practices no longer form the dominant pattern” (Palmer Colton Kramer 47). This concept of involving other ways of living outside that of their religious beliefs was called “secularization.” Furthermore, individualism first became distinguished during the Renaissance period. “Renaissance individualism emphasized the outstanding attainments
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The European area ran into a lot of conflict during the Renaissance period because of their mass christian belief. “The Mongols after about 1240 held Russia in subjugation for 200 years. The Ottoman Turks, who had originated in central Asia, penetrated the Byzantine Empire, crushed the medieval Serbian Kingdom at the battle of Kosovo in 1389, and spread over the Balkans. They took Constantinople itself in 1453” (Palmer Colton Kramer 47). In the fourteenth century, nearly half of the European population were killed by an incurable disease called the Black Death, or Bubonic Plague. “In some places whole villages disappeared. Cultivated fields were abandoned for want of able-bodies men and women to work them” (Palmer Colton Kramer 48). This plague caused many revolts and repression due to lack of workplace and disorganization; many jacqueries, or peasants, took part in Wat Tyler’s rebellion for better working conditions. Between the 1300’s and 1560, there was an upheaval in the Christian community. In Spain, many people had already converted to christianity; however, Spanish families feared the few people who still had a Jewish(Marranos) or Moorish(Moriscos) background. “Thousands of such persons were brought before the inquisition, where, as in the civil courts under the Roman procedure, torture could be employed to extort confessions” (Palmer Colton Kramer 74). These inquisitions led to the national and the catholic fusing together. Many events from the Renaissance influenced the way Europe is
The European area ran into a lot of conflict during the Renaissance period because of their mass christian belief. “The Mongols after about 1240 held Russia in subjugation for 200 years. The Ottoman Turks, who had originated in central Asia, penetrated the Byzantine Empire, crushed the medieval Serbian Kingdom at the battle of Kosovo in 1389, and spread over the Balkans. They took Constantinople itself in 1453” (Palmer Colton Kramer 47). In the fourteenth century, nearly half of the European population were killed by an incurable disease called the Black Death, or Bubonic Plague. “In some places whole villages disappeared. Cultivated fields were abandoned for want of able-bodies men and women to work them” (Palmer Colton Kramer 48). This plague caused many revolts and repression due to lack of workplace and disorganization; many jacqueries, or peasants, took part in Wat Tyler’s rebellion for better working conditions. Between the 1300’s and 1560, there was an upheaval in the Christian community. In Spain, many people had already converted to christianity; however, Spanish families feared the few people who still had a Jewish(Marranos) or Moorish(Moriscos) background. “Thousands of such persons were brought before the inquisition, where, as in the civil courts under the Roman procedure, torture could be employed to extort confessions” (Palmer Colton Kramer 74). These inquisitions led to the national and the catholic fusing together. Many events from the Renaissance influenced the way Europe is