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The Middle ages fall due to the lack of faith in the Catholic church after clergy refuse to be the doctors what they were durning the middle ages because they were afraid they'd become unholy if they caught the plauge.
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Scientific Advancement.
Clock was made.
he first mechanical clock was invented in the early 1300's. With this invention time began to be measured in hours (24 hours equaling a day). Galileo, an Italian scientist, discovered the pendulum in 1581. The pendulum greatly improved the constant movement of the hands or bell of a clock. The average error with the pendulum varied only by seconds each day. Before this the error was from 10 to 15 minutes a day. -
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Humanism caused people to look at other things besides religious texts like the bible.
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Scientific Advancement.
In 1440, German inventor Johannes Gutenberg invented a printing press process that, with refinements an increased mechanization, remained the principal means of printing until the late 20th century. The inventor's method of printing from movable type, including the use of metal molds and alloys, a special press, and oil-based inks, allowed for the first time the mass production of printed books. -
Sandro is an artist credited with painting the "Birth of Venus" and the Frescoes wall in the Sistine Chapel.
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Leonardo da Vinci painted the famous "Mona Lisa". People still today guess and do not understand why he painted the image.
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Now man looked after himself first, and his family and friends second. His loyalty to king, baron, or pope came in a distant third.
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Michelangelo is an artist famous for painting the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.
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Donato di Niccolò di Betto Bardi, better known as Donatello, was an early Renaissance Italian sculptor from Florence.
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Raphael is a Renaissance Artist famous for painting the unkown "Portrait of a Man" and the Crucifixion.
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Scientific Advancement
In 1496 the first paper mill came into operation in England. English artist soon make wallpaper decorated with hand painted designs, stencils, and wood-block prints. For the next 200 years England was a large producer of wallpaper for Europe.Before wallpaper was invented only the wealthy people could afforded to decorate the wall of their castles. They used woven tapestries. The tapestries kept the cold castle walls warmer. The designs woven into the tapestrie -
Sir John Harrington, godson to Queen Elizabeth, made the first flush toilet for himself and his godmother in 1596. He was teased by his friends and never made another one although he and Queen Elizabeth continued to use the one he did make. Two hundred years later Alexander Cummings reinvented the flush toilet more commonly called the water closet. Cummings invented the strap. The strap was a sliding valve between the bowl and the trap.
