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Trade shifted from Italy and the Mediterranean to the Atlantic Ocean and Northern Europe.

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Christian Humanists living north of Rome began to criticize Church practices.

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New monarchies wanted to strip the power away from the church as can be see with the Concordat of Bologna in France.

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Printing press allowed the spread of information and more people can get educated.

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The artist started to show expression and individualism in their art, this shows how the artist have advanced from before where the paintings were flat and dull to showing motion and a natural look to the art.

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Paying the artists took money from poor people.

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Paying the artists took money from poor people.

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monopolies in asia by europe made the balance of power unstable as countries with those monopolies had more economic power than others.

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Painters have used more advanced perspectives of art.

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printing press allowed people to spread their beliefs and make their religion stronger

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The middle class got more power that had been taken from the nobles.

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There was a greater demand for education for people who were outside the nobility.

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Techniques such as sfumato, blending colors to obscure sharp edges, and foreshortening, making closer objects appear larger, made paintings appear to be more realistic.

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Techniques such as sfumato, blending colors to obscure sharp edges, and foreshortening, making closer objects appear larger, made paintings appear to be more realistic.

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A new middle class emerged and this bourgeoisie class created a new social class

The feudal hierarchy of the Middle Ages basically ended

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people start to learn about the world and what causes things to happen and that it is not all gods doing.

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reformation woman got bigger rolls in society like being able to be educated in some cases. Also the printing press helped spread new types of cultures.

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People learned more about literacy and students,people,and Christian Humanist collaborated and shared ideas throughout Europe and shared religions and beliefs

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Women did not have large roles in society during the Middle Ages but women started getting more jobs in the Renaissance

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the rise of classical texts and the humanistic ideas created a higher level of thinking  and individual thought for pre existing intellectuals. This rize in intellectual thought lead to more people willing to question and evaluate there everyday life, including the church

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The middle class (merchants) gained more power because of the demand of products.

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Europeans starting questioning the ability of the Church when they could not save people from dying of the Plague, and this questioning of the Church continued through the Renaissance.

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The church would sponsor artists to create these religous pieces to be used as teachings and to enhance faith

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woman did not get as much acknowledgement as the men did in the middle ages and they didn't have as many jobs, but during the Renaissance the woman started to work and have more independance.