Topic 1

• Humanism


  14th century movement linked to the Renaissance and evolved with the arrival of the Reformation and its thinkers
• Christian humanism


  Humans are the closest thing to God
• Theories of humanism


  Individual thinking and personality
• Humanism


  Started in 16th century in Europe, breaking the medieval traditions
• Renaissance


  A cultural and social movement that occurred in Europe from the 15th century, considered the transitional stage between the Middle Ages and modernity
• Renaissance

  • Search for new knowledge
  • Valuation and recovery of classical culture
  • Art value
  • Live the present and enjoy
  • Trust reason over faith
  • Anthropocentric thinking
• Humanism


  Reason over faith
• Renaissance


  Reason over faith
• Humanism and Renaissance both occurred in the 15th century in Italy
• Humanism


  Based in literature
• Renaissance


  Based in artistic expression
• Mercantilism


  The search for wealth in a country through the accumulation of precious metals (gold and silver)
• Mercantilism


  • Prioritize more exportation than importation
  • Centralization and only one person can sell one type of thing
• Absolutism


  A political system in which a single monarch holds complete and unrestrained power over a country
• Absolutism


  • The power of an absolutist government may not be challenged or limited
  • Absolutist monarchs inherit their positions as an undeniable benefit of their birth into a long family line of monarchs
  • Absolutist monarchs claim their power is bestowed on them by God, according to the theory of the "Divine Right of Kings"
• Modern ages


  XV to XVVIII century
• Mercantilism


  The search for wealth in a country through the accumulation of precious metals (gold and silver)
• Mercantilism


  • Prioritizes more exportation than importation
  • Centralization and only one person can sell one type of thing
• Absolutism


  A political system in which a single monarch, usually a king or queen, holds complete and unrestrained power over a country
• Absolutism strengthens


  15 and 16 centuries
• Absolutist government


  • The power may not be challenged or limited
  • Absolutist monarchs inherit their positions as an undeniable benefit of their birth into a long family line of monarchs
  • Absolutist monarchs claim their power is bestowed on them by God, according to the theory of the "Divine Right of Kings"
• the centralization of economy on modern ages
• person related to Humanisim

  Allighieri
• person related to renaissance

  Da vinci
• On the modern age thanks to the reform and counter reform the catholic Churg starts to get a break down
• Reasons for the breakdown of the Catholic Church

  • Sell of indulgences
  • Life of richness
  • Nepotism
  • Lack of people and masses
• Science in the modern age


  • They start studying the human body
  • Telescope improvements