WHAT IS RENAISSANCE?
Renaissance was a cultural movement in Europe in which old arts and literature were revived. It marked the period in which Europe changed from the medieval world into the modern world.
TOP 10 CAUSES
1. FALL OF CONSTANTINOPLE
Renaissance was a cultural movement in Europe in which old arts and literature were revived. It marked the period in which Europe changed from the medieval world into the modern world.
TOP 10 CAUSES
1. FALL OF CONSTANTINOPLE
- Constantinople was the capital of Byzantine Empire or the Eastern Half of the Roman Empire. It was a great center for learning .
- Ottoman Turks captured Constantinople.
- Many scholars got scared and fled to Italy and other parts of Europe with valuable manuscripts and books.
- Scholars who fled to Italy started teaching in universities. In these universities they started injecting the ideas of rationalism and liberalism in the minds of people.
- Crusades were a series a of wars fought between the Christians and Muslims between the 11th century and 14th century over Jerusalem.
- This led to the contact of the westerners with the advanced east world which was the cradle of civilizations..
- Westerners started to go to universities in the east like the university in khufa.
