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Martin Luther should be considered a hero because he was the one that told German people to stop hanging with the church and get indulgences.

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If humanism never existed, people would be nothing more than catalysts for religion. Before humanism, our whole lives revolved around religion and spreading religion, and now we have shifted more to evolving and discovering more worldy things.

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I think the printing press did both at the same time. It was able to capture the past and as of right now it still seems to have been preserved. It also did create the future as more literature was made.

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Leonardo da Vinci because his art is well known today and it wasn’t just his art. His skills in other things are well known today.

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Humanism was something that helped the people move a bit farther from fully religiously focusing their lives into helping them focus more on themselves and what they can do to better themselves, it helped them focus on the talents they had and or could build up to, it also helped others have bigger and better and newer jobs that may have not have any option of getting before.

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I feel like the printing press preserved the past because of all the documents that we have now to look through and read.

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Modern technology encouraged people to improve themselves socially. The printing press enabled people to share knowledge in a far and wide range around the world. Technology help people understand the world around them. For example Nicholas Copernicus and Galileo used to find  that the solar system was heliocentric instead of geocentric, and technology made it easier to know.

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The Reformation changed Europe politically because it caused a decline in the Catholic church's moral and political authorities. It also gave monarchs and states more power. It also resulted in the start of modern democracy and capitalism.

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Martin Luther should be considered  a hero because Martin believes that you should have faith and not just have money and buy an indulgence just to go to heaven.

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The reformation changed Europe religiously in a way of freedom of expression. Before Martin Luther you sort of had to stick by being Catholic. Martin Luther pointed out that the Church was using their followers for money and started his "Lutherans" that were his followers standing up against the church.

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I think Martin Luther should be considered a hero because he believed that salvation could be earned by having faith. He also made the 95 Theses to go against the Pope abusing power and the sale of indulgences.

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The humanist movement was the catalyst to the Protestant Reformation and the thoughts and ideas of Martin Luther. It was the humanist education that exposed Luther to the classics and the early Church fathers that previously had been known by name only.

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The printing press did both! It preserved the past as the people that once lived back then may have left behind writings from the printing press, as it shows and preserves the past, but it also paths a new future for those that didn't have many options before, with the help of the printing press they were able to help themselves in education and being legible for jobs.

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Modern technology encouraged a new wave  humanism because there is new technology that can help humans become stronger and they can look at their body and see what's wrong and try to fix it. This helped humans become better and made them proud of themselves.

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Lorenzo de’ Medici (1449-1492) was a member of the Medici family, one of the wealthiest European families in history and the de facto rulers of Florence. During the Renaissance, artists were completely reliant on patrons. Although he rarely commissioned work himself, Lorenzo de’ Medici helped connect artists with other patrons.

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The printing press definitely did both as it helped store past information and helped to store new ideas.

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Yea I’m no for the most part. I mean like we are in a world where most people have no VALID reason to be on there phone 24/7 but they are still. They watching TikTok, on snap, watching YouTube, etc. And I am guilty of it my self. But then to better people like businessmen or musicians or artists there platform relies on tech to better spread and get money because of it. ㅜㅜ

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In my opinion, John Wycliffe was the greatest contributor of the Renaissance because he translated the bible english which led to John Calvin and Martin Luther to begin and lead the protestant reformation which led to the creation of many new religions.

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The printing press helped both, in the past and the future,i agree paisley.

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The printing press helped preserve both the past and the future. It helps us look back in past books or documents and the printing press helped spread information just like the present but instead of a printing press we use books, but mainly  by electronic devices, shiloh.

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Martin Luther should be considered a hero. He was one of the only people that spoke out against the church about its corruption and led his supporters which turned into a religion. This led the catholic church to change in result of losing its supporters to Luther.

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I believe that Martin Luther is a hero. The reason I believe this is because went against the poor teachings from the catholic church and spoke up on how to better themselves.

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Modern technology has given many advances when it comes to socializing and school. You can get any question you have answered in seconds and improve your over all knowledge as a person, Shiloh.

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The printing press helped preserve the past because it allowed us preserve past documents so we can expand our knowledge on what events led up to today.

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Modern technology encouraged people to think more and want to create/do things that would benefit all of mankind so everyone could move forward as a whole.

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Although most historians consider Martin Luther to be a "hero" in terms of "leading" The Reformation (though I believe the credit should go to John Wycliffe for translating The Bible), Luther was actually NOT a hero at all. It was unbeknownst to his followers at the time that Luther was in fact anti-Semitic throughout the movement, and developed a hatred towards the Jewish Community and denounced Jews in the 1500s, as well as committing to various other public movements at that time period which conspired against the Jews.
In 1543,  Luther published On the Jews and Their Lies in which he claims, "base, whoring people, that is, no people of God, and their boast of lineage, circumcision, and law must be accounted as filth." He argues that their synagogues and schools be set on fire, their prayer books destroyed, rabbi's forbidden to preach, homes razed, and property and money confiscated. They should be shown no mercy or kindness, afforded no legal protection, and these "poisonous envenomed worms" should be drafted into forced labor or expelled for all time. He also seems to advocate their murder, writing "we are at fault in not slaying them." Luther claims that Jewish history was "assailed by much heresy", and that Christ swept away the Jewish heresy and goes on to do so, "as it still does daily before our eyes." He stigmatizes Jewish Prayer as being "blasphemous" and a lie, and vilifies Jews in general as being spiritually "blind" and "surely possessed by all devils." It can be inferred that Luther has a special spiritual problem with Jewish circumcision. Here is the full context in which Martin Luther advocated that Jews be slain in On the Jews and Their Lies is as follows in Luther's own words:

There is no other explanation for this than the one cited earlier from Moses - namely, that God has struck [the Jews] with 'madness and blindness and confusion of mind' [Deuteronomy 28:28]. So we are even at fault in not avenging all this innocent blood of our Lord and of the Christians which they shed for three hundred years after the destruction of Jerusalem, and the blood of the children they have shed since then (which still shines forth from their eyes and their skin). We are at fault in not slaying them.

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the printing press did both because if you think about it if they saved the first newspaper they could use it to tell more about past.

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He should 100% be considered a hero for what he has done for the people in his time.

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if humanism never existed, there would be a lot more animals in our world, more plants and less polution.

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Shiloh G- Without humanism our world might not be as advanced and different. Humanism allowed us to discover, try, and create new things. Allowing Humanism opens up different opportunities and inventions to the world that helps improve it for future generation. Without it our world may not be as advanced in technology or inventions. It would take us longer to do basic day things without most discoveries.

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Venice became an enormous trading empire, and was ranked as an international power. Even though Venice was a Republic, it was an oligarchy of merchants and aristocrats that ran the city. Venice was also close to the Ottoman Empire which is surrounded by water. Here's the general takeaway of what Italy went through during The Renaissance Period:

While Northern Italy was not richer in resources than many other parts of Europe, the level of development, stimulated by trade, allowed it to prosper. In particular, Florence became one of the wealthiest cities in Northern Italy.

Florence became the center of this financial industry, and the gold florin became the main currency of international trade.

Luxury goods bought in the Levant, such as spices, dyes, and silks, were imported to Italy and then resold throughout Europe.

The Italian trade routes that covered the Mediterranean and beyond were also major conduits of culture and knowledge.

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Humanism allowed for practical things to become more relevant. I believe that if humanism never existed then people would be less educated. I believe this because one of the big humanistic beliefs is education can change humanity for the better, which made people want to be smarter.

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Modern Technology helped us with entertainment apps such as YouTube, Tik Tok, and Instagram, etc. Because of these apps people can have jobs out of these apps such as a youtuber. While for personal uses you can use it for messaging make it easier to finish projects or connect with people from far away. Also with modern technology if you have a big presence on the internet if you want to sell something to them that they like for example makeup people will buy it.

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Modern technology has encouraged a new wave of humanism by the development of the printing press. The printing press allowed for the mass production of news and knowledge so that the average person had access to be better informed.

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Martin Luther should be considered a hero. Even though he has done argumentative things to cause him to be considered a villain, his nailing of the 95 Thesis on the door began the Protestant Reformation.