Modern history is one that lies between the Middle Ages and the contemporary age, then between the 15th and 18th centuries. According to historians, the modern age begins with the discovery of America and ends with the French Revolution. It was a stage of great transformations, humanity left behind the Middle Ages, considered one of the darkest eras for humanity.
As has already been said, the modern era brought many changes for both the European and American continents, where the arrival of the conquerors to American lands, originated a process of acculturation for the aboriginal settlers of the region, who were deprived of their dialect, properties, customs and religion and in most cases, if they do not obey the orders of the colonists, even life.
However, even when this fact brought with it the decline of the American ethnic population, the discovery of a new continent, benefited Europeans engaged in commerce, developing urban life at this stage. The inhabitants of these cities formed a new social class: the bourgeoisie, which every day became more powerful and influential.
At this stage of history all the philosophical and theological ideas and reasoning focused on the figure of God were put aside, to lean towards anthropocentrism, which is nothing else than to focus on all those ideas that place man as the center of the world. With anthropocentrism, people were guided by rational and scientific values in order to understand the world they inhabit, thus distancing themselves from everything religious by not considering it a primary element of their life. These new ideas gave way to humanism, a philosophical current that placed man at the center of everything.
Some of the great inventions of the modern era were the printing press, considered by many to be the artifact that started modern history; then there is the creation of the microscope, the thermometer, the creation of the Gregorian calendar (which is used to this day). In the same way, the great characters of this time should be mentioned: Christopher Columbus, Leonardo Da Vinci, Miguel Ángel, Luis XIV, Hernán Cortés, Nicolás Copernicus, among others.
