Proposal for exhibit

Proposal for exhibit
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The Museum of Western civilization is one of the most visited museums in Canada. Located on banks of River Ottawa, it gives you an insight of human history over 20,000 years ago. World-renowned exhibitions happen in this museum throughout the year. It connects everyone to the rich history, cultures and arts of human long ago. Focusing on the period between 1600 and 2009, more so on the period between 1848 and the present; this paper will look at the development of Western Civilization in this period with reference to 4 pieces of art from these times.
Western civilization refers to that period when there was an influx of settlers from the East to the Americas. With them, they brought their own social norms, values of ethics traditional norms and belief systems and other things to the Native Americans. Western civilization is characterized democracy and capitalism in the economic sense.
Exhibition: Development of the Western Civilization between 1600 and 2009
In the period around late 1500s and the mid 1600, wars of religion and worldviews were two things that marked the Western civilization. Christian ideologies would criticize the secular ideologies heavily especially on the creation of the universe. The rapid expansion of Calvinism after 1560 threatened to alter the religious balance of power in much of Europe (Hunt 2009 pg 452). There were also conflicts with the religions themselves, the catholic and the Protestants were divided on their beliefs. Due to this, there was a need to find a non-religious way to explain such phenomena such as natural occurrence of things and political power. This gave the rise of scientific methods of explaining the occurrence on events.
This piece about religion and science is important because it does not only give the development of the Western Civilization; it also gives us the important role that the church played towards civilizing the society then. This period also describes the time when human knowledge of science was at its infant stage and when everything was merely interpreted in godly terms. The significance of this period is to investigate development of civilization in the Christian and scientific perspective.
In the period between 1848 and 2009, Western civilization saw itself in a different phase of development. Much had happened in the period before the 1800s but also, major changes happened from the beginning of the 19th century. Development in this ti...