The Classical Era

1. The classical era is a broad term for a long period of cultural history centered on the Mediterranean Sea. Influenced the US on architecture, government, Olympics, the alphabet, and math.

2. The arabics took over and kept the texts as well as using them and brought new advancements along with it. Constantinople.

3. The church. Scholasticism combined religious doctrine, study of the Church fathers, and philosophical and logical work based particularly on Aristotle and his commentators, and to some extent on themes from Plato.

4. a huge number of Greek texts and scholars arrived in Europe with the fall of Constantinople in 1453. Also it could've started with the discovery of ancient Greek writings. Also, After the plague the church lost a lot of its power. People were not afraid of going to hell or going against whatthe church said was proper, so art flurished.

5. The humanistic revival of classical art, architecture, literature, and learning that originated in Italy in the 14th century and later spread throughout Europe. Scholasticism dealt with recent tradition. However, humanism did not focus all their attention on summarizing and comparing the views of recognized authorities on a text or question, but went directly to the sources themselves. Their most respected sources were classics (Latin and Greek) and the Bible (Church Fathers), whereas their scholastic rivals were more bound to medieval philosophers and theologians.There seems to be a thick line drawn between humanism and scholasticism in the Middle Ages. On one side is faith; the other side is reason. Humanism brought in the subjective elements of faith, trust and conscience while scholasticism emphasized reason.

6. The Age of Enlightenment was a cultural movement of intellectuals beginning in the late 17th- and 18th-century Europe emphasizing reason and individualism rather than tradition. by criticising the role of monarchs descending from divine right, some French philosophers (Voltaire in particular) helped new concepts to emerge such as: democracy, freedom of religious belief, equality between human beings. It reasoned with science.

7. a movement in the arts and literature that originated in the late 18th century, emphasizing inspiration, subjectivity, and the primacy of the individual. Its like artists vs scientists. Reason vs self expression, ethos vs logos. Neo-Classicism, The Supernatural, Nationalism, &