Consequences of the Renaissance

• New lands


  • Discovery of the Americas in the late 1400s showed value of finding new things and making discoveries rather than using old theories
  • Integrated successful treatments from America into western medicine
  • Treatments used by Native America brought back to Britain (e.g herbal medicine)
  • Exploration lead to new discoveries
• New ideas spreading quickly


  • Printing press allowed ideas to spread quickly around Europe
  • New information became accessible
  • New ideas spread quickly
• New style of art


  • Artists wanting to show the human form in a more realistic way led artists to study the body more carefully
  • More could be learnt about the human body
  • More about the body could be analysed
  • Revealed new anatomy information which lead to new understanding of the body
• New inventions


  • New technology such as gunpowder meant injured soldiers got new types of wounds that doctors had to find new ways to treat
  • New ways of treatment created
  • New solutions to injuries found
  • Forced doctors into new ways of thinking (e.g gunpowder)
• New learning


  • A scientific method of learning began which involved observation, hypothesis and experimentation
  • Scientists would base their research on experiments rather than old theories
  • Scientists would prove/disprove their theories
  • Started to use scientific approaches