History of the World

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History of the World

• Part I

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The Medieval Period

• From the collapse of the Roman empire to the
  Renaissance roughly the seventh century to the
  middle of the 15th century
• Strictly hierarchical and static society
• Strong Roman Catholic Church
• Man in a fallen state
• Education conducted in Latin, mostly to create
  clerics.

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The Renaissance

• Roughly the fifteenth through the seventeenth
  century
• Humanism
• The Protestant Reformation
• The invention of moveable type and the
  publication of the Bible in the vernacular

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The Enlightenment and the Age of Reason

• Roughly the late 17th and 18th centuries
• Politics the social contract and the concept of
  natural rights
• Increasing prestige of and progress in the
  natural sciences, especially in the work of Sir
  Isaac Newton
• Using reason, humans could discover the truth of
  nature beneath the corruptions introduced by
  religion, social structure, and convention
• Belief in progress

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The Age of Revolution

• The American Revolution of 1776
• The French Revolution of 1789