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Cultural Change, image, image - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Emerged in Italy
      - Spread throughout Europe
    - - A renewed interest in classical culture
        
        Classical Greek and Roman
        
        Culture and philosophy
        
        Became the point of reference
        
        For intellectual and artistic activity
      - Anthropocentrism
        
        Human beings
        
        Became the centre
        
        Of philosophical reflection and artistic creation
        
        Continued to be Christians
        
        But abandoned theocentrism
        
        They tried to explain reality without religion
      - Optimism and reality
        
        Religious beliefs that caused fear
        
        Were replaced by the belief
        
        In a better life in this world
        
        Creativity was oriented towards
        
        Obtaining better techniques
        
        Resulted in numerous inventions
      - The desire for knowledge
        
        Possessed a great intellectual curiosity
        
        They didn't limit their knowledge
        
        To one special area
        
        They wanted to learn about everything
        
        And be Renaissance Man
      - Critical thinking
        
        Knowledge was based on
        
        Tradition, the great scholars or sacred texts
        
        Questioned all previous knowledge
        
        And tried to explain
        
        All natural phenomena through
        
        Individual reflection
        
        Reason
        
        Extensive studies
        
        Research
        
        Practical demonstrations
        
        Experimentation
      - The use of vernacular languages
        
        Most books were written in Latin
        
        Started to write their works
        
        In languages spoken in their countries
        
        This was the case of the Italians
        
        Dante, Petrarch and Boccaccio
        
        More people had access
        
        To culture and new knowledge
- - - - The heliocentric hypothesis
      - The Earth revolved around the Sun
    - - About the human body
      - Thanks to the anatomical studies
        
        Of the physician Andreas Vesalius
  - - - The invention of
        
        The movable-type printing press
        
        By Gutenberg
        
        Enabled a large number of books
        
        To be printed
        
        New ideas reached more people
        
        Through books
      - The creation of
        
        Cultural institutions
        
        Science and arts academies were founded
        
        The new humanist philosophy
        
        Was also spread from many universities