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RENAISSANCE The Renaissance was a period of European history that would change the world forever. It changed the way people saw art (and other things) and the way people acted. The Renaissance began in 14th-century Italy and spread to the rest of Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries. In this period, the society of the Middle Ages with its agricultural economy and church filled life, was transformed into a society that was increasingly influenced …

…have an immediate effect. Even at the peak of the age, which happened during the late 1400’s and early 1500’s, only a few people accepted the new ideas. But the influence of the Renaissance on future generations was vast in many fields, from art and literature, to education, political science, and history. Because of this fact, most scholars, for hundreds of years, have agreed that the modern era of human history began with the Renaissance.