Social Sciences and History / Unit 4 SSH 0302 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Humanism and Its Thinkers
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The idea
Renaissance means rebirth of Greece and Rome; humanism put humankind at the center. Petrarch founded the movement about thirteen hundred and coined the Dark Ages. Christine de Pizan argued women's capacity; Erasmus corrected the New Testament from Greek.
In practice
Machiavelli's Prince, arguably the first political science.
Where people slip
The anchor calls Petrarch the founder, the artists the famous ones. The exam asks both.
Your place on the trail
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