Chapter 15 Blog

After reading chapter 15 on cultural transformations I learned many things. One thing I learned was the conflict between Christians and Protestants. To start off Christianity was divided internally between the Roman Catholics of Western Europe and the Eastern Orthodox of Eastern Europe and Russia. On the outside, Christianity had been cautious and defensive towards Islam. Islam had forced out Christian crusaders in the Holy Land by 1300 and captured the capital of Eastern Orthodoxy in the Ottoman seizure of Constantinople in 1453. The Protestant Reformation began in 1517. Martin Luther began the reformation by offering a public debate with a document called the Ninety-Five Theses. This document highlighted the faults of Christianity. During this time most people were already skeptical about corruption within the pope, clergy,  and the churches spending. For women, Protestanism didn't offer them more freedom than Christianity but within Protestanism the worshiping of female figures stopped. The invention of the printing press helped spread Reformation thinking. Violence between Christians and Protestants lasted for more than 30 years until King Henry IV put out the Edict of Nantes granting religious toleration. Another thing I learned was about conversion and adaptation is Spanish America. The Europeans believed that their military and political success was from the Christian God. The Spanish Natives agreed with the Europeans and millions got baptized. I also learned about how the Europeans approached China with Christianity. To hide their real agenda, the Europeans told China they were just interested in learning and exchanging cultures. However, spiritually the Christian missionaries didn't have much that the Chinese wanted. The elites had Confucianism while local people have Buddhism, Daoism, and other Chinese spirits. The last thing I learned about was about the Scientific Revolution. Nicolaus Copernicus was a Polish mathematician and astronomer who had the first initial breakthrough in science. From 1642 to 1727 Sir Issac Newton formed the laws of motion. After newton died, there was a new revolutionary understanding of the physical aspects of the universe for the Europeans.

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