Before The Renaissance, Reformation, Scientific Revolution, Or Enlightenment?

Before the Renaissance, Reformation, Scientific revolution, and Enlightenment the common views on government and religion were bleak. The common perceptions were that the only people that should be educated were the very high nobles and the monks. Despite this start, the renaissance set the groundwork for individual thought, the reformation stopped placing so much of our resources in the Catholic Church, through the scientific revolution our understanding of the modern was created and finally through the Enlightenment our modern beliefs were born. The Renaissance, Reformation, Scientific Revolution, and Enlightenment represented an intellectual revolution that forever changed the way Europeans thought about themselves and the world around them. The Renaissance kick started the modern
The Renaissance gave birth to many of the modern educational systems that we use today. This is because the Renaissance’s beliefs took the role of upholding knowledge away from the church. This shift, from monks to elites, began the long process of taking power away from the church and bestowing more power in individuals. The humanist values that started in the Renaissance have made their way to our modern schooling system. Many liberal arts schools have their roots in the ideals that the great thinkers of the Renaissance first documented. Some of these thinkers such as Machiavelli formed new ways of thinking that changed the way the people of the era governed. Machiavelli’s the Prince with his questioning of whether it is better to be loved or feared, drawing the conclusion that “it is must safer to be feared than loved” and that “when a ruler is at the head of his army and has a vast number of soldiers under his command, then it is absolutely essential to be