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Main argument
Before 1500, Europe imported ideas
and techniques; after 1500,
Europeans were cultural creditors.
Ptolemy to Columbus
Ptolemys Geography. 8,000 precise
locations from 2nd CE.
Errors in Ptolemys calculations
inspired Columbus to sail westward
to China.
Ptolemy gave way to Mercator and
Ortelius and collaboration between
men occurred.
New exploration led to silver and
gold discoveries in Mexico and Peru.
Economic Expansion
New trade routes and increased
production of precious metals in
Europe paralleled population growth
stimulating other industries.
Banking flourished-Jakob Fugger.
Capitalism appeared; Industrial
production versus craft production.
Rise of merchant diversity
Humanist Culture
Humanism-Based on the study of the
classics colored by notion of human
dignity.
Pathos of historical distance ancient pastmedieval-renaissance-present. Secularize
historical writing.
Thomas More-analyze different societies
and accept, reject or modify in light of
comparative knowledge
Emperor Charles V
John Calvin
Counter argument.
Could the end of the renaissance
period have ushered in the modern
state in all of its complexity?