This concided with the beginning of what is known as the Modern age in Europe. ... The Renaissance began in northern and central Italy. ... Education: Was an important aspect of the Renaissance- indeed the beginnings of the Renaissance were called "the new learning" by scholars who had studied the Ancient Greeks and Romans. ... Many Renaissance works of art show subjects taken from the bible. ... Renaissance sculpture went a step further! ...

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The Renaissance was a rebirth to many things: art, music, literature, even religion. Overall the Renaissance could be seen as a rebirth of human thought, as man once again began to express themselves. ... They say the Renaissance was the beginning of modern culture, which is true. However it was a renaissance, and these new thoughts had to catch up with the past first. ... Voltaire didn't just go after the ideas of the Renaissance, he even managed to undercut the newest wave of unbridled optimism, Romanticism. ...

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Reasons for European Exploration At the end of the XV and the beginning of the XVI century began the Great Geographic Discoveries. ... At the beginning the first one seemed more favorable. ... During the Renaissance the Europeans started to use the gunpowder. ...

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Samuel Johnson consolidated the phrase in 1779 in his critical writings "Lives of the Poets" when he noted "about the beginning of the 17th century appeared a race of writers that may be termed the metaphysical poets". ... Donne's imagery focuses on the new (late 16th century) learning of the English renaissance and on topical discoveries and exploration. ...

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Shakespeare is called the greatest author in the English language not only because his works are in English, but also for his profound and lasting impact on the language itself. William was a great English playwright, dramatist, and poet who lived during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth cent...

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At the same time James did not end his examination here; he went ahead to clarify that in as much as servitude was a result of Renaissance judiciousness, slavery resisting governmental issues was the social impact of innovator vision. ...

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