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
now changed. most elusive still denounce the practice of charging interest but the swiss reformer john calvin had quite a different opinion. for. calvin said that people could determine from their economic success whether they were predestined to salvation or damnation. what that meant people didn t just sit around to see whether they would be chosen. they worked incredibly hard. the great sociologist marx of aber said that calvinism was the father of capitalism. but we know that other religious movements of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries did just as much to spur the economy. it was really the overall forces in society at the time along with technical developments that led to the incredible economic boom.