1. Strategic Alliances
With the growth of trade and the manufacturing classes, and the introduction of royal taxes, power of the Western Europe became increasingly centralized in the monarchies (Britannica, p. 381). ... The achievements of the Renaissance in art, literature and philosophy were particularly important in the secularization of life; thus there was a corresponding decline in the religious authority of the church. ...
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