EMERGENCE OF THE

MODERN WORLD
Main Trade Routes

Silk Route Sea Route

Mediterranean World
Importance of Italy
•
Alps, Lombardy plains
•
Rise of an empire
•
Traders, Wealthy class
of Merchants, Rich
Families
 Venice,
Milan,
Piza,
Florence,
Genoa,
Bologna
and
Naples.
Revival took place in Italy ….
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Commercial Importance
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Trade in Italian Cities
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Support to Arts by Wealthy
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Migration of Scholars
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Meeting place of Western &
Eastern Knowledge
Renaissance
•
Fall of Roman Empire
•
Dark Age
•
Rise of Catholic Church
•
Beginning of new Era –
Renaissance – ‘Rebirth’

Ancient  Medieval 
Modern  Contemporary
Renaissance - Causes
•
Decline of Feudalism
•
Lost the Supremacy of
Catholic Church
•
The Crusades
•
Expansion of Trade & new
Towns
•
Inventions
•
Fall of Constantinople
Renaissance -Features
•
Spirit of Inquiry
•
Spirit of Criticism
•
Rational Thinking
•
Growth of Vernacular
Literature
•
Humanism
 Italian Renaissance
Literature Arts
Petrarch Leanardo da Vinci
Boccaccio Michael Angelo
Dante Titian
Donatello
Brunelleschi
Petrarch (1304-1374)
•
14th Cent.
•
Sonnets – Love
•
Different from
Praise of Gods
•
Greek Style
Boccaccio (1313-1371)
•
Immoral life
of Lords
•
Decameron
Tales-100
Stories
•
Like Arabian
Nights
Dante
•
Language –
common
•
Humanistic
•
Divine comedy
Leonardo da Vinci
Mona
Lisa
Last Supper
Virgin
Mary
Circulation of Blood
Mechanical Flight
Michael
Angelo
Creation
Mossess David
Sistine Chapel
Titian
Donatello
Brunelleschi
Brunelleschi -Painting
 Renaissance in Science
Figures Works
Da Vinci Flying Machine
Roger Bacon Gun Powder

Copernicus Earth Moves

Galileo Telescope

Francis Bacon Scientific Method

Johannes Planets move around

Kepler the Sun
 Renaissance in other parts of Europe
Figures Works
Cervantes Don Quixote
Defects of Feudalism

Erasmus In Praise of Folly

Evils of Clergy

Geoffrey Chaucer Canterbury

Social Satire
Tales
W Shakespeare (many books)

John Milton Paradise Lost

NicoloMachiavelli TheUnification
Princeof italy
Thomas Moor Utopia
Cervantes
Erasmus
Geoffrey Chaucer
John
Milton
Nicolo Machiavelli
Thomas Moor
 Reformation
•
John Wycliff - Oxford
•
John Huss - Prague
•
Martin Luther - Germany
•
Ulrich Swingli - Switzerland
•
John Calvin - France
•
Henry VIII - England
Country Leader Group

Germany Martin Luther Lutheranis

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Switzerland Ulrich Swingli Swinglianis
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Switzerland John Calvin Calvinism

England Henry 8th Anglicanism

Scotland John Knox Presbyteria

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Martin Luther (Germany)
Protestants
John Calvin (France)
Huguenots
Henry VIII (England)
Anglicans
Martin Luther Against
the Sale
of
Indulgen
ce -
Protestant Reformation
John Calvin
Henry VIII
 Canterbury
ArchBishop & Pope
Canterbury Cathedral
 Counter Reformation
With Pope Paul II in 1534
Trent council in Germany
‘Index’ - Books
‘Inquisition’ –Church Court
Society of Jesus - Ignatius
Loyola
Pope Paul II
Trent council
Inquisition
Inquisition
 Thirty Years War (1618-1648)
Catholic royal family of Hapsburgs
& Protestant Princes of Germany
End by the Treaty of Westphalia in
1648
Settled Boundary Disputes
Emergence of Nation States in
Europe.
 Geographical Discoveries
Accounts of Marco Polo
Fall of Constantinople in 1453

A new Mariner's compass

Astrolobe
School for Sailors by Prince Henry of
Portugal
Christian Missionaries
About the Wealth of East
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Mariner's compass
&
Astrolobe
Christopher Columbus
Vasco da Gama
Ferdinand Magellan
John Cabbot
Navigator Country Land Discovered

John Cabot England New Foundland

Balboa Spain Panama

Cabral Portugal Brazil

Sebastian England Labrador

Cabot
Columbus Spain N America

Amerigo Italy S America

Vespucci
 The results of
Geographical Discoveries
Europeans became Rich
Rise of Colonial Empires
Aggressions and Migrations
Rise of Slave Trade
Epidemics
Banking - Joint Stock Comp
Slav
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Trad
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 Progress of Science

Copernicus Helio -Centric Theory

Galileo Galili Telescope
Sir Isaac Theories of gravitation &
Newton Laws of Motion
Carl Linneaus Father of Taxonomy
Copernicus
Helio -Centric Theory
Galileo Galili
Sir Isaac Newton
Carl Linneaus
Carl Linneaus-drawing
 Enlightenment
•
An advancement in the
intellectual activities of man
•
The conflict between Religious
faith & Rationalism
Enlightenment -Main Ideas
● Contemporary Age is that of progress
● Reason is the Guide to Knowledge
● Nature’s work cannot be Changed by Man
● Simple & Natural Society is the ideal one
● There is no Original sin
Enlightenment Thinkers Contribution

Descartes and Theory of Causation

Spinoza
John Locke Epistemology
Denis Diderot Encyclopedie
Montesquieu
Voltaire
Rousseau
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Voltaire
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