Differences Between the Old and the New
1. During the Renaissance, the people went from looking only to the church to explain things, to looking to themselves to explain things, and started to question what they had been told in the past, because the bible was being published as a result of the printing press.
2. Before this time period, the towns and cities were very individual and didn't work together, but after the Renaissance, they were more open to interaction which caused more open trade centers, water routes instead of land routes, more exploring etc.
3. Because the cities were not so isolated anymore, the cultural aspects of the cities also developed, such as their language, music and art, because the cities were able to collaborate ideas.
In my opinion, the Food Shortages to Food Surplus was the most important change. This is what set everything into motion and allowed other things to happen. When they had food shortages, people would only be working on growing more food, because if you didn't have food you wouldn't be able to survive. Once they had more than enough food for themselves, they were allowed to spend there time doing other things, such as inventing the printing press and changing how their religion was. Also, not as many people died so that they were able to have more children, which made it so there were more people to help with jobs. Because they had food surplus, they were able to develop their music, art, language etc. as well. The change from Food Shortages to Food Surplus was definitely if not the most important, one of the most important transformation during this time period.
During the Age of Enlightenment, many changes occurred and people started to get more complex ideas about things such as religion, government, society, human nature and how the universe was created. This was a result of them having more time on their hands so that they could think of all of these new ideas. They had more time because of the food surplus and so they could spend more time thinking about new inventions. If they had been short on food for longer, some of these ideas wouldn't have been figured out until much later. Like I said before, the food surplus was the beginning of these new changes.
Nicolaus Copernicus was a great mathematician, and was widely known for his idea of the heliocentric model. This is the model that has the sun as the center. Copernicus came after Ptolemy and the Prolemaic model, which had the Earth as the center. This article below, discusses Copernicus and this theory. They talk about a book that he published shortly before his death called De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium, and how powerful the image at the beginning of the book was, and how even though the next 405 pages describe this theory, this is how they remember it.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-11798317
Coach Jackson (my 2-4th grade basketball coach) was more than just a coach to me. He was the man that taught me to have confidence in myself, and that I shouldn’t give up. Altogether, he made me a stronger person. Every practice, when he would show us a new move, or play, he would chose me to come out and demonstrate it for the rest of the players, even though I was the only girl and the youngest one there. Even though this completely frightened me, most of the time I was successful in doing what he asked. This made me feel a lot better, that I had just completed a move in front of all the other older and more experienced kids. This boosted my confidence a lot. From Coach Jackson, I learned to believe in myself, and just because I’m a girl, or young, doesn’t mean I can’t do something. Coach Jackson coached my brothers as well, and when he started to coach me, I was really scared. The first couple of practices, when he would say something to me, I would start crying. Eventually though, I stopped crying, and I started to look forward to going to play for him. It wasn’t Coach Jackson that was changing, it was me. He was still saying the same things to me, but I had learned to take what he said to me, and make myself a stronger person as a basketball player, and as a young girl. The confidence and strength that I now posses, is a direct result of Coach Jackson and how he has shaped me.
