A lot of ink has been spilled over what event precipitated the Renaissance. It was probably a number of factors which had in common one thing. They demonstrated that the ancient view of the world was not perfect.
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The Western European medieval mind generally believed the world was coming to an immediate end and that they lived in the end times among the inscrutable ruins of a once-splendorous ancient world. And for this reason progress itself was not conceivable. I think about this a lot.
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Two very especially salient examples of this come to mind. First, the "discovery" of the "New World": which demonstrated not only the existence of other lands but also shaped the concept of how the world was organized as a globe (not as roughly concentric elemental spheres).
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Second, Tycho's Supernova of 1572: which demonstrated that the heavens (the night sky) were not perfectly immutable and eternal in form and inaugurated what would become modern science.
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I don't mean to have a whole History thread here, but just to consider one idea, that this pattern seems to repeat itself a lot over time.
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tbf i think the original christians were expecting the apocalypse in their own lifetimes
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they were. you can see how the writing in the New Testament changes from the very earliest epistles until the later scripture.
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I’m starting to wonder if earlier ancient civilisations believed this, or something else … but did they tend to worry about things that didn’t happen too? (I was wayyy too young to be spoon-fed this sort of thing at age 14, when all I wanted to spend more time on was coding).
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Apocalyptic preachers were common in the ancient Middle East. Take that as you will.
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true, but imagine if there hadn't been three whole continents left to exploit and immiserate for the advancement of Western Europe
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4 if you count Australia, i guess
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