Italian Renaissance rural peasants unchanged lives

Most Italians remained rural peasants

About 75%

About three-quarters of Italians were rural peasants during the Renaissance, and their lives stayed much as they had been in the Middle Ages. Renaissance culture mainly affected a small part of society.

Kant argued that we know appearances, not things themselves

Immanuel Kant argued that space and time are ways the human mind organizes experience, rather than features we can know belong to reality itself. We can therefore know things as they appear to us, but not things exactly as they exist independently of our experience.

City sewers can carry roof rain to sea

When sewers carry rain from roofs away instead of letting it soak into the ground, less water can refill underground supplies, and freshwater can flow to the sea. In Belgium, sewerage has been linked with a water-table drop of 100 meters.

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Italian Renaissance rural peasants unchanged lives

Most Italians remained rural peasants

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