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They were making a gesture of their sense of freedom, and yet, at the same time, they were implicitly accepting the medieval conception of history as a series of well-defined ages within a limited framework of time. In a sense, the humanists invented the Middle Ages in order to distinguish themselves from it.

Indeed, Petrarch would provide something of a founding statement for the humanists when he wrote, “For who can doubt that Rome would rise again instantly if she began to know herself?” A few- Petrarch was the most conspicuous among them-felt that their lot was cast in a dark time, which had begun with the decline of the Roman Empire. It would seem unnecessary to observe that the men and women who lived during the thousand years or so preceding the Renaissance were not conscious of living in the Middle Ages. The humanists were engaged in a revival of Classical learning and culture, and the notion of a thousand-year period of darkness and ignorance separating them from the ancient Greek and Roman world served to highlight the humanists’ own work and ideals. The term and its conventional meaning were introduced by Italian humanists with invidious intent.

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The BBC reports that rats likely ate Dodo eggs and other animals outcompeted the bird for food sources. In fact, Dodo specimen damage and loss was common in the 17th and 18th centuries.Ĭause of Extinction: Popular belief has sailors hunting and eating the Dodo to the point of extinction, but it’s more likely that the rats (and other animals) the sailors brought with them caused the Dodo’s decline. This led people to believe that there were more Dodos tucked away somewhere in nature and so, specimens weren’t handled as carefully as they should have been. People didn’t believe that God would take away a creature’s existence after having gone through the trouble of creating them, so no one was truly alarmed at their disappearance. Yikes: The Earth’s Sixth Mass Extinction Is AcceleratingĮven though the Dodo went extinct more than 150 years ago, their story is important.

The last of the Dodos were seen in the 1660s, and because there really wasn’t an emphasis on specimen preservation, many of the remaining fossils were lost or destroyed. The Dodo was a flightless bird native to Mauritius whose population began dwindling and eventually became extinct over the short course of a century when sailors began arriving on the East African island nation.