More questions about the background of ideas
Education
- What was the extent of literacy in the period?
- How were boys educated?
- Were girls educated at all?
- What was university education like?
New knowledge
- What was the Renaissance?
- What was humanism in the Renaissance?*
- When did western people realize that the Earth is not in the centre?*
- Did Shakespeare know Copernicus' theory (that the sun is in the centre of the solar system)?
- What was the beginning of the scientific method?
- Who invented the flush toilet?
- What did the English think of Machiavelli?*
- What did they think of colonization and the New World?*
And more questions about the background of ideas.
Footnotes
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What was humanism in the Renaissance?
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When did western people realize that the Earth is not in the centre?
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What did the English think of Machiavelli?
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What did they think of colonization and the New World?
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