Renaissance Era Research Paper

World History- SLO Essay #1 The events in Europe during the 16th and 17th centuries contributed to the culture and society of the 18th century by helping build up people’s understanding of the world by ensuing the enlightenment. Unfortunately, The events of the 16th and 17th century also greatly contributed to terror on a global scale through the wars of the 1700s.
The ideas of the Enlightenment were greatly brought on by the Renaissance era. During the Renaissance, the main idea of the renaissance was putting emphasis on individual worth, which is also known as humanism. This idea led to people wanting more knowledge to increase their worth so they rediscovered ancient knowledge about multiple subjects that the philosophers of the Enlightenment
During the Renaissance, one of the main ideas was also freedom. People felt that they deserved religious, political, and intellectual freedom and that feeling became more and more present and eventually resulted in war. For example, the American Revolutionary war was a conflict that resulted because the American people wanted freedom from Great Britain. The Age of Exploration also helped bring on the wars of the 1700s because as explorers found and claimed more land, they would have conflict with either people who were already inhabiting the land or people who had already claimed the land. For example, the French and Indian War was a result of French expansion into the Ohio River valley even though there were already British colonies established there. The Scientific Revolution was also a cause of the wars of the 1700s. Before the start of the French Revolution, tensions were already running high because of the economic hardship and political conflict, and the discoveries and inventions made during the Scientific Revolution challenged the beliefs of the Catholic Church which only made things worse and helped lead the nation to an outbreak of war in