Journal 2-3-14

In class, we watched the Crash Course video on the Renaissance and whether it was a thing. John Green argued that because it didn't really affect people who weren't upper class, it shouldn't really be called a thing.  I don't really agree with John Green about the fact that the renaissance wasn't a thing. The renaissance is just a name for some things that happened during a time period. In, fact some historians call it the Early Modern Period instead. Just because it didn't affect a lot of people like women, Jewish people, and pretty much everyone who wasn't rich, it still caused a lot of expansion in the arts and science.