analyze civilizations’ legacies. Not only have you been asked to identify innovations, aesthetic accomplishments, ideologies, and political, economic and social systems that world civilizations left for other historical peoples to continue to develop, but also analyze how these legacies still have relevance today. To prepare for your exam, recreate and fill in the Civilizations Legacy Chart” below in your notes. One era has been completed for you for exemplar purposes * You will not need to know anything from this Era* Greatest Legacy Explanation of Legacy Legacy Significance to Legacy Significance to Modern Day Civilization/Era Egypt Ancient Greece Rome Renaissance Invention of the Technological - books, which The printing press EXAMPLE printing press by Gutenberg devised a were scarce prior undoubtedly changed Johannes Gutenberg c. printing device that to the 1450s Renaissance Europe 1440s- 1450s in had moveable type. (since they had to politically, economically, Germany This meant that be hand-copied) socially, technologically individual letter were now easily and aesthetically. stamps were inserted reproducible. However, its impact is still into the printing Textbooks now evidenced today in the device to create text available = presence of: as needed. They could development of -education be removed and then better education reworked to generate systems/people expanse of literature different pages of text. became more -Christian literate denominations/churches -as people that resulted from the became more Protestant Reformation – educated = more Anglican, Presbyterian, writers emerged Lutheran etc. generating texts for entertainment (poets, playwrights) -reproductions of old Classic texts
analyze civilizations’ legacies. Not only have you been asked to identify innovations, aesthetic accomplishments, ideologies, and political, economic and social systems that world civilizations left for other historical peoples to continue to develop, but also analyze how these legacies still have relevance today. To prepare for your exam, recreate and fill in the Civilizations Legacy Chart” below in your notes. One era has been completed for you for exemplar purposes * You will not need to know anything from this Era* Greatest Legacy Explanation of Legacy Legacy Significance to Civilization/Era Legacy Significance to Modern Day Egypt Ancient Greece Rome Renaissance EXAMPLE Invention of the printing press by Johannes Gutenberg c. 1440s- 1450s in Germany Technological - Gutenberg devised a printing device that had moveable type. This meant that individual letter stamps were inserted into the printing device to create text as needed. They could be removed and then reworked to generate different pages of text. books, which were scarce prior to the 1450s (since they had to be hand-copied) were now easily reproducible. Textbooks now available = development of better education systems/people became more literate -as people became more educated = more writers emerged generating texts for entertainment (poets, playwrights) -reproductions of old Classic texts The printing press undoubtedly changed Renaissance Europe politically, economically, socially, technologically and aesthetically. However, its impact is still evidenced today in the presence of: -education expanse of literature -Christian denominations/churches that resulted from the Protestant Reformation – Anglican, Presbyterian, Lutheran etc.
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