Was Humanism one of the driving forces behind the great geographic breakthroughs

Yes humanism was one of the driving forces behind the great geographic breakthrough because in 1945 it introduced quantitative techniques in science and technology and become an important part of political geography.

Explanation:

In 1945 human geography and quantitative revolution had come into the society which was a period of renaissance in the period of geographical thought. It introduces quantitative techniques and methods in the science which brought geographic breakthroughs.

Behavioral geography which analyzed the human behavior and mental imagination which is known as mental map. Human geography discusses religion, race and ethnicity of people.

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explanation:

the catholic church withhold people's access to the bible during the middle ages.

people could go to church and listen to the teachings, but it was absolutely forbidden to own and/or read the books of both the old and new testaments. it was also prohibited to translate the books (which where originally in biblical hebrew) to any other language.

this was done so the church could remain in control of what their teachings were and to enhance their importance and power, while also being able to judge people's actions through information that was unavailable for the general public.