Report on The linkage of 2010 item and the two historical periods

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1. Introduction

1.0 Introduction to Change and Continuity        2

1.1. 2010 item: Wikipedia        3

1.2. Renaissance        4

1.3. Enlightenment        5

2. Relationships two between historical periods and 2010 item
2.1. Renaissance and Wikipedia        6

2.2. Enlightenment and Wikipedia        7

2.3. Renaissance and Enlightenment        7

3. Wikipedia in Renaissance and Enlightenment
3.1. Renaissance        8

3.2. Enlightenment        9

4. Timeline (development of the 2010 item)        10

5. Reasons for Change and Continuity

5.1. Political        13

5.2. Social        13

5.3. Economic        14
5.4. Intellectual        14

6. Conclusion        15

7. References        16


  1.  Introduction
  1.  Introduction to Change and Continuity
    This Report is about the Change and Continuity of one of the 2010 item based on the two historical periods of the history.

Out topic of this project is Change and Continuity of Wikipedia in the history of Renaissance and the Enlightenment. We are going to introduce the features of the 2010 item and both of the historical periods.

History is one of our ways to learn, we read the knowledge from book and then develop our own technology.

The past is very complicated, because we can never know the exact truth, it’s one of the thing we learnt while rebuilding our own history of human.

By comparing the two historical periods and the encyclopedia in each of the period, we can learn the change and continuity of many aspects. Using a timeline, we will show the develop of the encyclopedia history, and how it transformed into the nowadays internet encyclopedia --- Wikipedia.

1.1. 2010 item: Wikipedia
Wikipedia is a free web based encyclopedia project support by the nonprofit Wikipedia Foundation. The Wikipedia began as a complementary project of the Nupedia, a free encyclopedia just like Wikipedia. Wikipedia's articles provide links to guide the user to related pages with additional information to provide convenience for the users. The information in Wikipedia was written by volunteers that were not paid. The name Wikipedia was coined by Larry Sanger it is a portmanteau from wiki (a technology for creating collaborative websites, from the Hawaiian word wiki, meaning "quick") and encyclopedia. The Wikipedia was launched in 2001 by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger.

The name Wikipedia was coined by Larry Sanger it is a portmanteau from wiki (a technology for creating collaborative websites, from the Hawaiian word wiki, meaning "quick") and encyclopedia. The Wikipedia was launched in 2001 by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger.

We choose Wikipedia as our topic of the 2010 item is because it’s a very popular website that many people use to search for information, and since the Wikipedia is very informative, and many people use them as their only information source, the trust to Wikipedia information is a phenomenon that deserves our attention. We believed that people have the ability to analysis information but not only believing in one source.

We choose an internet encyclopedia because the internet will be a very good technology for us to explore, and since the history of encyclopedia is very rich and can be traced back to many centuries ago.

1.2. Renaissance
The Renaissance is a period in the history of Europe beginning in about 1400, and following the Medieval period, also known as the Middle Ages.

The word "Renaissance" comes from a French word meaning "rebirth". The reason that the period is called by this name is because people started taking an interest in the learning of ancient times, in particular the learning of Ancient Greece and Rome at that time; a new age of rebirth on applying new techniques on art, poetry, and architecture. It was consider being the beginning of the modern history. The Renaissance was seen as a "rebirth" of that learning. The Renaissance is often said to be the start of the "modern age".

Arab savants preserved the writings of the ancient Greeks in their libraries. When the Italian cities traded with the Arabs, ideas were exchanged also. These ideas which preserved from the ancient past were served as the basis of the renaissance.

During the Renaissance, there were many famous artists, many writers and many philosophers. Many people studied mathematics and different sciences. A person who is clever at a great number of things is sometimes called a "Renaissance man". Leonardo da Vinci, who was a painter, a scientist, a musician and a philosopher, is the most famous Renaissance Man.

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The Renaissance was much more than simply studying the work of ancient savants. It influenced painting, sculpture and architecture. Paintings became more realistic and focused less often on religious topics. Under the atmosphere encouraged by different artists, physiologist, scientists of a new thinking, people become more concentrate on the qualities of their lives.

In the middle Ages, there were very few books. The books that existed nearly all belonged to , or , or to very rich people. They were written by hand and often had beautiful hand-painted pictures. They were so expensive that most people could not own them. ...

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