The Renaissance: Was it a Thing? - Crash Course World History #22
In which John Green teaches you about the European Renaissance. European learning changed the world in the 15th and 16th century, but was it a cultural revolution, or an evolution? We'd argue...
==========
Hi, I'm John Green, This is Crash Course: World History and today we're going to talk about something that ought to be controversial: The Renaissance. So you probably already know about the Renaissance thanks to the work of noted teenage mutant ninja turtles Leonardo, Michelangelo, Donatello, and Raphael. But that isn't the whole story. Mr. Green, Mr. Green. What about Splinter? I think he was an architect. Ugh, me from the past, youíre such an idiot. Splinter was a painter, sculptor, AND an architect. He was a quite a Renaissance rat. [theme music] Right, so the story goes that the Renaissance saw the rebirth of European culture after the miserable Dark Ages, and that it ushered in the modern era of secularism, rationality, and individualism....
==========
Hi, I'm John Green, This is Crash Course: World History and today we're going to talk about something that ought to be controversial: The Renaissance. So you probably already know about the Renaissance thanks to the work of noted teenage mutant ninja turtles Leonardo, Michelangelo, Donatello, and Raphael. But that isn't the whole story. Mr. Green, Mr. Green. What about Splinter? I think he was an architect. Ugh, me from the past, youíre such an idiot. Splinter was a painter, sculptor, AND an architect. He was a quite a Renaissance rat. [theme music] Right, so the story goes that the Renaissance saw the rebirth of European culture after the miserable Dark Ages, and that it ushered in the modern era of secularism, rationality, and individualism....
