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
their indigenous populations. from one side in the can only. right until his death columbus believed that he had found the secret to the chinese mainland but his discovery none the less changed the world spain and portugal became imperial superpowers. columbus thus was also the first in a line of cruel concrete is. what drove him a last thread venture the promise of power wealth fame. columbus was definitely someone who wanted fame and fortune but he was also a very devout person. he thought he was helping countless individuals by bringing their souls to the christian faith so. there are many indications that he might have believed that at the end of the fifteenth century the world was nearing its end. that this market