The Reformation created the ruthlesnness and competetiveness of our world today.

If what Historian Lisa Jardine said in Worldly Goods is true, and that “The world we inhabit today, with its ruthless competitiveness, fierce consumerism, restless desire for ever wider horizons, for travel, discovery and innovation, a world hemmed in by the small mindedness of petty nationalism and religious bigotry but refusing to bow to it, is a world which was made in the Renaissance,” then certainly each point that Jardine made must have been rooted in the time of the Renaissance. Basically, I agree with her argument and say that the world in which we live in today had its start in the Renaissance.
In regards to the ruthless competitiveness that Jardine argues encompasses our world today, what examples of this competitiveness do we have in records as starting in the time of the Renaissance? The answer is plenty. Increased European contact with the Far East brought about a capitalistic pursuit of profit, particularly to the Italian city-states. This type of trade had nev...