CHAPTER 1 THE MODERN AGE 1500-1700

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CHAPTER 1 THE MODERN AGE1500-1700
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BY 1500, EUROPE WAS EXPERIENCING PROFOUND CHANGES.

• People started to recognize the different eras
  that have existed.
• Middle Ages Knights, Lords, Vassals, Peasants
  etc.
• Renaissance education, art, literature,
  science, and medicine.

Early Modern Age the time were about to look
at.
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RELIGIOUS CHANGES

• THE REFORMATION dissent had been growing within
  the church.
• People felt the church had become too wealthy and
  powerful.
• Martin Luther pushed to keep the church plain and
  simple gt Protestants.

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POLITICAL CHANGES

• With people questioning the church, the kings
  powers increased gt Divine Right of the King.
• The modern idea of a nation began to emerge.

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ECONOMIC CHANGES

• Agriculture was still the backbone but industry
  started to increase.
• In many places serfs were no longer tied to the
  land.
• Trade encouraged exploration and empires emerged.

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SOCIAL CHANGES

• Improved agriculture meant less farmers
  (consolidation), better crops, and as result, a
  higher population,
• An increase in trade created a new Middle Class
  of people.
• Rural life became replaced by an urban lifestyle
  gt cities emerged.

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INTELLECTUAL CHANGES

• Humanism mode of thought in which human
  interests predominate (the church??).
• Science expanded, challenging several old
  beliefs.
• Copernius/Galileo gt the sun was center of
  universe
• Inventions gttelescope, microscope, and
  exploration
• Literature, philosophers, and theatre.

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THE DOMINO EFFECT

• Trucks are invented

New ideas spread more quickly
People travel more
New laws and Regulations needed
Horses and wagons No longer needed
More and better roads are needed
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CAUSE AND EFFECT
Martin Luther posts 95 Thesis
The Reformation
Empires
Trade expands exploration
Increased population
Improved agriculture
Renaissance
The Early Modern Age