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Essay on The Impact of the Rise of Science and Technology on the Humanities
The history of the mankind exhibits a slow change in how we have lived over 200,000 years. It is more than ten thousand years ago, since we have made the transition from hunter gathering societies to agricultural-based societies. When the transition to agricultural societies was made, it was then that our ancestors enacted social order, laws, beliefs were formed, and villages, towns, cities and institutions of governance were conceptualized. It is estimated that this transition happened in the last five percent of the time we humans have spent as a species on this planet.
We still carry with us many of the genetic, behavioral and social characteristics of this earlier period of our evolution. Throughout the centuries science and innovation has changed lives of humans and transformed them from an early stone-age men to a computer whiz. Men has made staggering leaps in the realm of science and technology and these inventions have added to the potential of men.
The 1400 AD was marked by the Dark Ages in Europe and it was also the Golden Age of Islam. During this middle Age, the most popular and sophisticated scientists and doctors were not found in Europe, but rather they belonged to the Islamic Empire in the eastern and southern part of the world. Skills that the European doctors and scientist learned, was basically acquired from Islamic scientists and doctors. The Europeans would send Crusades of Europeans in West Asia. These Europeans lived and learned the knowledge of science from the Islamic doctors. This greatly helped to spread Islamic science to Europe. Moreover, much other scientific knowledge was passed to France from Islamic Spain. Due to this much of the Islamic culture was adopted by Europeans.In medieval Europe, most of the scientists were keener to learn scientific observation. Therefore with the help of Islamic scientists the Europeans explored plants, and astronomy......
