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  • ...op economic success, where universities play a critical role. However, the history of universities was very different, and these institutions were first relat ...ntific Experiments, Inventions, and Discoveries of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Groundbreaking Scientific Experiments, Inventions, and Discoveries through
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  • ...he History of Ideas 46 </i> (vol. 2, April – June 1985), p 178</ref> The Renaissance or ‘rebirth’ was influenced by the ideas of the ancient past and it dre ...le. The Humanists' ideas, the growth in textual analysis, and the Northern Renaissance changed the intellectual landscape. They encouraged many Church reformers,
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  • ...s. Above all, the increasing secularism of the times allowed people in the Renaissance to conceive a new way of living and even a new world. ...de=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=bd2fb62203df2b60edcd5189347cdd7f The Italian Renaissance: Culture and Society in Italy]</i> Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1
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  • ...y, especially in the fifteenth century made a decisive contribution to the Renaissance in Italy. ...ouraged the intellectual and cultural flourishing that became known as the Renaissance.
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  • ...duced two Popes and Cesare Borgia, one of the most infamous figures of the Renaissance. The family was suspected of many crimes and they have become legendary fig ...ant part in the evolution of the Papacy. Their ambitions also destabilized Renaissance Italy and Cesare Borgia's efforts to create a principality for himself out
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  • ...of Italy in 1494 is widely seen as the beginning of the end of the Italian Renaissance. Charles VIII invaded Italy to lay claim to the Kingdom of Naples, which co ...development of Italy and can be considered one of the primary reasons the Renaissance ended. The French Invasion was to lead to a series of wars that greatly wea
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  • ...arkable failure, but he had a decisive influence on the development of the Renaissance. ...l patronage? Ultimately, his secular and rational outlook helped shape the Renaissance.
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  • ...policies and actions delayed foreign domination of Italy and prolonged the Renaissance. ...e, Italy was in turmoil and had just entered a new and bloody phase in its history. Venice was becoming increasingly powerful and was threatening the balance
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  • ...ailyh0c-20&linkId=739a244a93ecac84fd03204f26d1d881 The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy]</i> (London, Penguin, 1992), p. 34</ref> The elite was largely se ...76504&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=1916833500448e15ad9bce5dcbf4726f Renaissance and Reformation]</i> (New York: Marshall Cavendish, 2007), p. 89</ref>
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  • ...ieved that humanity would be deprived and prone to evil.<ref> Hale, JR. <i>Renaissance and Reformation</i> (Pelican, London, 1988), p. 67</ref> *[[How did the Renaissance influence the Reformation?]]
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  • ...sts and writers and this did much to foster the development of the English Renaissance. The suppression of the monasteries also ended the millennium-old tradition {Mediawiki:British History}}
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  • ...ng scenes from the story have been recovered by archaeologists. During the Renaissance and later, the myth became very popular, and many artists painted scenes fr [[Category: Myths and Gods]] [[Category: Ancient Greek History]]
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  • ...ag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=5e4fd0680acd209879f3f29c98e8005f Ice Cream: A Global History].</i> London: Reaktion Books, pg. 19.</ref> ...g=dailyh0c-20&linkId=84e7dc5199895ae45b5f8f264f1dc432 Of Sugar and Snow: A History of Ice Cream Making].</i> University of California Press.</ref>
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  • ==Early History== ...ef>For more on the trestle, see: Sparkes, I. G. (1980). <i>An illustrated history of English domestic furniture, 1100-1837: the age of the craftsman.</i> Bou
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  • ...ring that Egypt would be among the longest enduring civilizations in human history. ...Also, the ancient Egyptians were usually averse to writing about their own history in a negative manner, so there are few reliable primary texts from the peri
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  • ...he night sky. While this is true, astronomy has fundamentally shaped human history as it allowed the understanding of the seasons and seaborne navigation. Add ...development of mathematics and astronomy, see: Neugebauer, O. (1975). <i>A history of ancient mathematical astronomy: in three parts.</i> Berlin: Springer.</r
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  • ...many regions, several new developments fundamentally changed the course of history for Europe and Asia. Many of these impacts are not obvious, but the Mongols ...7&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=a2218224825a7bf4fd3130e88ffef546 The History of the Mongol Conquests].</i> Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Pres
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  • ...ct on Asian cultures. It is one of the most devastating pandemics in human history and fundamentally changed the course of human events due to the high death ...ack Death helped to liberate societies and helped to set the stage for the Renaissance revival that occurred in Europe in the century after the Black Death.<ref>F
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  • *[[What were the causes of the Northern Renaissance?]] {{Mediawiki:Medical History}}
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  • ...uccio di Buoninsenga, for instance, one of the key innovators of the Early Renaissance period, employed the tempera medium to great effect in works such as his ea While Europeans have been credited throughout history with having developed and popularized the medium of oil paints, recent disc
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