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The Renaissance

From A.D 400 into the 1500s, Europeans lived in the middle ages. In the early 1300s, a great cultural movement called the renaissance began in Italy and later spread to England, Germany, France, the Netherlands and Spain. It lasted for about 300 years, but it's effects on the world today are still felt today. The latin based word "renaissance" means re-birth. during the middle ages, Europeans had to work had just to survive and forgot about the art of the Greek and the roman gods. The renaissance showed the re-birth in art, music, theater, philosophy and literature. The leaders of the renaissance disagreed with lots od stuff done in the Middle Ages. The people from the Middle ages thought the evil lurked every were. Were as now in the renaissance people were trying to be more civilized. People thought that people that were uncivilized were wicked ones. In the Middle ages people thought the only book to study was the Bible. People in the renaissance still had there religious beliefs but they started learning science, math, philosophy and law. There were also major inventions in the renaissance. They were the printing press, the lens, oil paintings, gunpowder adn the telescope. Info collected by: Mark C

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The renaissance