History notes for UPSC

The Renaissance: A Flourishing Era of Art Science and Culture

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Renaissance was the watershed between religious dominance, feudal authority, traditional mentality and the process of modernization. The growth in trade, cities, wealth, and prosperity offered patronage to thinkers and artists which led to overall awekening. Besides, over dominance and curruption in church accentuated the process of revival. In this blog, “The Renaissance: A Flourishing Era […]

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Relation between Renaissance and Reformation

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Renaissance was a necessary force to annihilate the age old beliefs by intellectual awakening and revival of classical knowledge. While reformation was a strong urge to recorrect the system flaws of religion. One fueled the appetite for knowledge, whereas other questioned the very fundamental views of religion. In this blog, I’m going to provide a

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Understanding ideals of enlightenment

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Enlightenment was the movement against the structured social and religious beliefs about the reality. It ushered the era of reason, logic, and empiricism that revolutionized the lives of people. So, proper understanding ideals of enlightenment seems unavoidable. Causes of enlightenment movement Worthy to mention the fact that earlier to seventeenth century, there were ideas and

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