Question

List at least three characteristics of society before the renaissance

Answer 1

-The political and economic system was a feudal system with a hierarchy of land owners at the top and peasants at the bottom.

-The social structure was determined by religion, by the Catholic Church and its configuration of time (a line that goes from birth to paradise).

-The period is marked by illiteracy with very few people being able to read or write. The society retains the marks of orality, of an oral culture (in opposition to a culture tied to the visual and print).

Answer 2

Answer:

was hurried along by the invention of the printing press

saw the invention of scientific instruments that brought the Age of Exploration

began because of the rediscovery of learning

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