Answer to Question #322551 in History for Richmond

Question

The years between 1500 and 1800, have always been characterized as a big advance on early time and form the central part of our picture of the past. Outline and explain 4 major reason why is the case.

Answer 1

Emerging from the historiography of Western Europe and associated with the period that witnessed the rise of the modern state, the discovery of the Americas, the emergence of the printing press, the humanist turn to history, the scientific revolution, the project of the enlightenment, but also religious dissent.