The European Renaissance

The European Renaissance is an important time in history, it was the "rebirth" of Classical Greeks ideas. In 1348, the bubonic plague hit all over europe, which question religious faith. Many will start to question;"Where is God?", to help cure or stop the plague. Faith of many got lost and especially in Florence. The bubonic plague is when they are bitten by a flea that carries the plague bacteria from an infected rodent. To reaction of destruction, interest in classical ideas started to happen. Increase of literacy and interest in non-religious texts. A good example would be the written work of Bocaccio, who wrote in vernacular language. He wrote in Italian, which uneducated people can hear, the language they know. The bible was being questioned, it wasn't taken as seriously has it was in the past. Individuals started to interpret the passages in the bible, instead of literally believing the stories. The world of literature starts to have different genres; biography, narratives, novels and etc. Sometime people started to become interested of. The arts, was a huge change as well. During the medieval era the paintings were religious; colors were dark and a lot of gold use. Especially, baby Jesus would look like a small adult; sometimes with a five o'clock shadow. In the Renaissance, paintings were about ordinary things and people. It look realistic and baby Jesus look like a baby. It wasn't about the religion views anymore, it was about getting out of the box. Explore new ideas and recollect the classical ones to make new ones. Without the Renaissance not happening, what would the world be like.

Chapter 13- The Worlds of the 15th Century

It been three months not blogging. I know I should since it is part the grade, to be honest I either forget or don't feel like blogging. But now, since the semester is going to be over, I need to caught up with most of the topics since September. My goal is to have many blogs as possible by December 6, I will do two blogs a day. So, with previous blogs I will give my opinion and what I learned from that chapter.

In the Islamic World had two powerful empires; The Ottoman and Safavid Empires. The Ottoman Empire lasted from fourteenth to early twentieth century. Had big territories, Anatolia, Eastern Europe, most of the Middle East, and North African coast. The empire efforts was to bring new unity to the Islamic world. They have an aggression towards Christian lands, which cause the fall of Constantinople in 1453 and the Europeans feared the turks. The Safavid empire appear in Persia from a Sufi religious order. The empire was established shortly after 1500, which imposed Shia Islam as the official religion of the state. Sunni Ottoman empire and Shia Safavid empire will fight constantly, between 1534 and 1639. I found interesting is the age of the four great Muslim empires, sometimes called “second flowering of Islam.” Which is the new age of energy, prosperity, and cultural brilliance.

The Americas' history is known for the Mayans, Aztecs and Inacs Empires. In the book only two are mention; the Aztec and Inac. Both empires were established by one- marginal peoples who took over and absorbed older cultures. Both were destroyed by the Spaniards and their diseases. The Mexica were a semi-nomadic people who mirgrated southward from Northern Mexico. Form themselves on an island in Lake Texcoco by 1325 and built themselves up and install the capital city of Tenochtitlan. The Aztecs were a loosely structured, unstable conquest state, a population of 5-6 million. I know about the Aztecs that they are more prominent in human sacrifice, than in earlier Meso-America. Their believes of human sacrifice is gods shed their blood to create humankind, so is only fair to do the same. Also, they believe the sun needs the life-giving force of human blood to help it fight the ever-encroaching darkness.