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A new change due to commerce, or trade. Power changed from nobles and kings to merchant who controlled political, economic and social power.
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Born into a family of merchants.
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Polo started his journey home with ship and returned with ivory, jade, jewels, porcelain and silk
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Got captured by rival city (Genoa).
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Rebirth in Europe and took ideas from ancient Greece and Rome
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Johann Gutenberg created a block printing technique with a press from wine and olive oi.
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Montesinos is the first Spaniard to speak out against the treatment of natives in the new world.
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People made strides in science and math.