The Renaissance started in Florentine, Italy and spread throughout all of Europe. It is based solely on naturalism, which in other words, is the study of man and the universe without the use of metaphysics. That man is the center and measure of all things. During the Renaissance, many advances were made in the math and science department. Famous names such as Leonardo da Vinci, Copernicus, Tycho Brahe and Keplero, just to name a few were all br

Another major change in the Renaissance was that life was not just all-positive growth. The Renaissance was also a time of hardships, which included the "Black Death" which concentrated the population by one third. Labor became scarce, industries contracted, and the economy stagnated, but agriculture was put on a sounder basis as unneeded marginal land went out of cultivation. Warfare was common, and death by pestilence and violence was frequent. Interest in the occult and magic was widespread, and the officially sanctioned persecution for witchcraft began during the Renaissance. However the 15th century experienced modest recovery with the construction of palaces for the urban elites, a boom in the decorative arts, and renewed long-distance trade headed by Venice in the Mediterranean. The later part of the Renaissance was marked by a growth of bureaucracy, and increase in state authority in the areas of justice and taxati

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