Youre watching news coming up next doc film the renaissance factor part two theyll be more at the top of the hour thanks for joining us. Europe ill be going to. Put whats become of it. What will it look like tomorrow. Evening for a Better Future isnt enough. Requires work which is sufficient. You know actions twenty nineteen may twenty sixth on g. W. The renaissance was when people started keeping track of time. Locksmith peterhead life invented the pocket watch in fifteen ten it soon became a profit tool merchants and a fortune with it. And it is out seafarers to navigate the distant oceans. Shortly before Christopher Columbus had arrived in the americas and the known world triple up inside. People began to understand our planets in new ways and an empire rose on which the sun never sets. This was all thanks to the new portable timepieces scholars could measure and calculate the paths of the heavenly bodies more accurately discovering the mechanisms of Planetary Motion and ultimately
for. european merchants wanted to get their hands on exotic luxurious and beautiful things and sell them for as much profit as possible. these things could be found in the mediterranean and especially in the far east. and so merchants like marco polo set off to search for spices and silk and incense and other luxury products. by how . they traveled the world they were followed by missionaries and sometimes by warriors. and then came the artists thinkers and explorers so they all fueled each other hoping to transcend their own horizons. to. lisp in. school says he three year old christopher columbus was just hours away from his life s dream coming true. he had an audience with the portuguese king john