what was it

• artist revolutionised paintings - study of body in detail - improved knowledge of anatomy
• universities established schools of medicines - not controlled by the church
• new scientific methods
• people wanted to know why 4 humour treatments weren't working on new diseases
• miasma still around
• printing press was invented - books could be mass produced - broke the power of the church
• secular (non-religious) society grew in Europe -

  Protestantism ->humanism - new focus on human/rational/scientific things - broke the power of the church
• America discovered
• new weapons
• many people rejected new ideas
• doctors could not make cures for their discoveries - didn't know about germs