largest periods of growth and development in Western Europe. The

increase in trade caused a abundance in wealth that resulted in the

focusing of the arts. Such things as literature, paintings, sculptures

and many more works are known to have blossomed from the period known

as the Renaissance. Many other important occurrences , such as the

Reformation and split of the Roman Catholic Church caused by the

opposing views of Martin Luther and more of a focus on humankind

called humanism, also the eight crusades to retake Jerusalem from the

Muslims, played key rolls in the period of the Renaissance.

The Crusades which took place before the period of the

Renaissance are a major factor in the c

illusion of depth, along with new techniques to make paintings more

in art. New perspectives were created by such people as Giotto,

church, there wouldnt have been enough of a basis for the Renaissance

Renaissance. The eight Crusades were the efforts to take back

deemed to be heretic in nature and he was hidden away by a German

perspectives came a new age of art within the Renaissance. Many new

Rome to France. With this the power of the papal states was divided

the Roman Catholic Church, which brought about the reformation of the

the Roman Empire and opened trade with the far east, and the split of

among the region's leading families. Starting near the year 1300 the

increased drastically. This increase in trade caused an abundance of

Jerusalem from the Muslims. These

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