Question

What the similarities and differences between 15th century europe and 15th century America?

Answer 1

The 15th century was the century which spans the Julian years 1401 to 1500. In Europe, the 15th century is seen as the bridge between the Late Middle Ages, the Early Renaissance, and the Early modern period. These two events played key roles in the development of the Renaissance.

Answer 2

The 15th century was the century which spans the Julian years 1401 to 1500.

Millennium:

2nd millennium

Centuries:

14th century 15th century 16th century

Timelines:

14th century 15th century 16th century

State leaders:

14th century 15th century 16th century

Decades:

1400s1410s1420s1430s1440s

1450s1460s1470s1480s1490s

Categories:

Births – Deaths

Establishments – Disestablishments

Gergio Deluci, Christopher Columbus Arrives in America in 1492, 1893 painting.

In Europe, the 15th century is seen as the bridge between the Late Middle Ages, the Early Renaissance, and the Early modern period. Many technological, social and cultural developments of the 15th century can in retrospect be seen as heralding the "European miracle" of the following centuries. In religious history, the Roman Papacy was split in two parts in Europe for decades (the so-called Western Schism), until the Council of Constance. The division of the Catholic Church and the unrest associated with the Hussite movement would become factors in the rise of the Protestant Reformation in the following century.

Constantinople, in what is today Turkey, then the capital of the Christian Byzantine Empire, falls to the emerging Muslim Ottoman Turks, marking the end of the tremendously influential Byzantine Empire and, for some historians, the end of the Middle Ages.[1] The event forced Western Europeans to find a new trade route, adding further momentum to what was the beginning of the Age of Discovery, which would lead to the global mapping of the world. Explorations by the Portuguese and Spanish led to European sightings of the Americas (the New World) and the sea passage along Cape of Good Hope to India, in the last decade of the century. These expeditions ushered in the era of the Portuguese and Spanish colonial empires.

The fall of Constantinople led to the migration of Greek scholars and texts to Italy, while Johannes Gutenberg's invention of the mechanical movable type began the Printing Press. These two events played key roles in the development of the Renaissance.