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Jan 1, 1400
Subject of Art
If paintings followed the Middle Ages subject, then there wouldn't be any Mona Lisa or School of Athens painting because the subject was limited to only about Christianity. Able artists to expand imagination and paint more -
Period: Jan 1, 1400 to
Renaissance
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Jan 1, 1440
Printing Press
Printing Presses were invented to make newspapers
Made book creating and newspapers easier. Modern days develop it to printers.
Care about it because without it, books will be really hard to find and really expensive. There will also be no newspaper to read too. -
Jan 1, 1492
Columbus
Christopher Columbus found America in 1492
If Columbus didn't find America, then trades and discoveries of gold, silver, corn, chocolate, tobacco and tomatoes wouldn't exist. -
Jan 1, 1500
Renaissance Started
In the 14th Century, the Renaissance started.
Without the Renaissance, we would be living in the woods and still be hunting for food. There would be no technologies and nothing would be like how it is today -
Jan 1, 1507
Mona Lisa
Leonardo Da Vinci painted the "Mona Lisa"Made paintings more realistic (realism) and subject changed. Care about it because without the Mona Lisa, people wouldn't have the knowledge to paint more realistic paintings and nobody would learn about the Sfumato (technique used in the mouth lines area in the "Mona Lisa" to make it look like a mysterious smile) -
Jan 1, 1514
Andreas Vesalius
Andreas Vesalius (1514-1564)published drawings of human body. If Vesalius didn't publish the drawings or dissected bodies of criminals, we would never know what was inside our body. Also, this drawing helped us understand how our body worked -
Apr 26, 1564
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare was born on 26 April 1564
If we didn't have William Shakespeare, then there wouldn't be any modern broadways and dramas. There will be no study of performance there wouldn't be any entertainment in a performance way (soap operas etc.) -
Jan 1, 1578
William Harvey
William Harvey (1578-1657) explains how the human heart and circulatory system works
If William Harvey didn't explain how the heart and circulatory system worked, we would never be able to understand how to heal and help people with heart disease. -
Telescope
Galileo Galilei invented the first working telescope in 1609.
Made it possible to discover and learn about planets and galaxies. Care about it because without it, world would still believe that earth was in the center. Never learn about asteroids and there would never be astronomy class.
