What jump started the Renaissance/humanism/The Scientific Method?

The Crusades

>>1978136
The fall of Constantinople and the resulting Byzantine refugees.

Rich as fuck Italian city-states attracting capable people from the corpse of Rome

So the Turk was behind it all after all

>>1978235
The population of Constantinople by 1452 was TINY, having only about 50k people. Doubtful that they had enough people to start a worldwide movement solely with their refugees. Furthermore, historians say the renaissance was well under way centuries before that even happened

>>1978241
The whole Reneissance-as-a-concrete-thing is a meme anyway, because it supposes that there ever was a "Dark Age" preceding it

all of this shit was invented centuries after it happened by Romeboos

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>>1978136
Keep in mind that these things have their roots as far back as the XIII th century at least.
They didn't just start suddenly.

The scientific method has arguably been around ever since humans started to make tools. All you need for it to work is trial and error.

>>1978136
Muslim scholars

Europeans looting the world