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The major causes of this decline were political changes in England diseases and wars. The burgess ( middle class) began to emerge in the cities and got a lot of relevance
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The Renaissance began at the end of the 13th century, first in the field of literature and painting, and fully developed from the 14th to the 16th century, extending to multiple arts and also science. Its periodization depends on the country, reaching the beginning of the 17th century in some of them. -
The Renaissance included an intellectual movement known as Humanism. Among its many principles, humanism promoted the idea that humans are at the center of their own universe and should embrace human achievements in education, classical arts, literature and science. As part of this philosophy, scholars, authors, political leaders and others sought to revive the study of Greek and Latin classics.
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The Black Death, also known as the Pestilence or Great Mortality, was the most fatal pandemic recorded in human history, resulting in the deaths of up to 200 million people, from Eurasia to North Africa, and reaching its peak in Europe from 1347 to 1351.
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Due to the increase in commercial activity during the Renaissance, the banking industry began to expand to make it easier for merchants to conduct business away from home. The most famous bank was the medici bank. Set up in Italy in 1397 -
The Medici, an art-loving family of wealthy bankers (and three popes), helped fund the Renaissance. They regularly hosted artists and commissioned art for their palace and their family tomb — the Medici Chapel — a masterpiece by Michelangelo.
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The Gutenberg Bible (also known as the 42-line Bible, the Mazarin Bible or the B42) was the earliest major book printed in Europe using mass-produced metal movable type. It marked the start of the "Gutenberg Revolution" and the age of printed books in the West. -
Christopher Columbus was an explorer, navigator, and colonizer, born in the Republic of Genoa, in what is today northwestern Italy. Under the auspices of the Catholic Monarchs of Spain, he completed four voyages across the Atlantic Ocean that led to general European awareness of the American continents. -
Nicolaus Copernicus created a model of the solar system where the sun was in the center and the earth and other planets moved around it. -
The Renaissance ends due to the natural evolution of its customs, tendencies, concerns or tastes of each era, in each society. Ended in the late 1600's