Week 1 General Anthropology

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Ancient History (up to 408 AD)Asian Empires (1 AD-1100 AD)Pre-Renaissance (1100-1300)Renaissance (1300-1650)Age of Reason (1650-1700)19th Century

Renaissance (1300-1650)

The Renaissance, the rebirth of the classic arts and sciences, begins in the 14th century. The term 'Anthropology' can be traced to the Renaissance, as can modern empirical science, secular philosophy, and fine art.

Tenochtitlan founded 1325AD Black Death 1350AD Printing press 1439AD European-American contact 1492AD Antropologium (anthropology) becomes a word 1501AD Protestant Reformation 1517AD Cortes conquers Mexica 1519AD Modern anatomy 1543AD Animal systematics 1551AD Early studies of anthropology 1594AD Roman Inquisition 1600AD Refracting telescope 1608AD Galileo Galilei 1600AD Modern internal medicine 1628AD Cartesian dualism 1630AD

1600AD Roman Inquisition

Giordano Bruno was burned at the stake by the Inquisition for heresy in 1600. Born 1548 as Filippo Bruno, Giordano Bruno was an Italian Catholic Dominican friar, philosopher, mathematician and astronomer. Bruno went beyond the Copernican model in identifying the sun as just one of an infinite number of stars, and he is the first man to have conceived of other stars as similar to our own Sun. He thought that there was life on other planets. He was burned at the stake by authorities in 1600 after the Roman Inquisition found him guilty of heresy.

Stone relief of Giordano Bruno burned at the stake

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Week 1 General Anthropology

Renaissance (1300-1650)

1600AD Roman Inquisition

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