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Change because of commerce/trade. Political, social, and economic power shifted was no longer held by wealthy nobles. Trade shifted from countryside to city and merchant class became powerful while the landlord lost power.
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Marco Polo was born to a family of merchants in Venice, Italy.
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The Polos and their accomplices start the journey back to Europe by ship with many Asian goods.
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Marco Polo captained a galley-ship in a battle against Genoa, Venice's rival city and was captured as a prisoner of war. While in jail, he met a writer from Pisa who encouraged Marco to write about his travels in Asia. He then wrote a book called the Travels of Marco Polo which became a bestselling book.
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There was a rebirth in Europe: a renewed interest in the ideas in thinking from ancient Greece and Rome.
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Johann Gutenberg, a German, in around 1440 invented the printing press,
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Montesinos, a Dominican friar denounces the Spanish treatment of the natives in Hispaniola.
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He criticizes Spain's treatment of natives in the New World.
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After 300 years, the Renaissance finally finished.