Desiderius Erasmus said in a letter to Sir Henry Guildford in 1519:

"The world is waking out of a deep sleep."

How do these words reflect the era of the Renaissance?

Respond in one well-constructed paragraph. Support your answer to the question with at least two examples of how the world was waking out of a deep sleep during the Renaissance.

The Renaissance was a cultural movement that was born in Florence, Italy, and aimed at transforming the dogmatic thinking of the time through the ideas of humanism. This means seeing the world in different ways using art, philosophy, science and politics to create a new vision of man and his role in the world. The deep sleep to which Erasmus refers is the backwardness that was lived at the time in the sixteenth century that was due to the obscurantism in which dogmatic and rigid ideas predominated, for which the rebirth was the awakening of society in which knowledge becomes the fundamental pillar and no longer religion. In this way the theocentrism is abandoned and this allowed for example the discovery of new lands that would later be colonized, discoveries are made in astrology and revolutionary ideas arise as those of Copernico and his heliocentric theory.