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It opened the door to learning
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The most powerful and enthusiastic patron of Renaissance culture in Italy.
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Allowed the ability to mass produce the Bible, in contrast to the time consuming hand copying of old
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Because of the nature of the hero it represented, the statue soon came to symbolize the defence of civil liberties embodied in the Republic of Florence, an independent city-state threatened on all sides by more powerful rival states and by the hegemony of the Medici family. The eyes of David, with a warning glare, were turned towards Rome
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The Mona Lisa is a half-length portrait painting by the Italian Renaissance artist Leonardo da Vinci that has been described as "the best known, the most visited, the most written about, the most sung about, the most parodied work of art in the world".
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Utopia is a work of fiction and socio-political satire by Thomas More (1478–1535) published in 1516 in Latin. The book is a frame narrative primarily depicting a fictional island society and its religious, social and political customs. Many aspects of More's description of Utopia are reminiscent of life in monasteries.
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Began the Protestant Reformation in Europe
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However, in 1534 King Henry VIII declared himself to be supreme head of the Church of England. This resulted in a schism with the Papacy. As a result of this schism, many non-Anglicans consider that the Church of England only existed from the 16th century Protestant Reformation.
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Offered an alternative model of the universe to Ptolemy's geocentric system, which had been widely accepted since ancient times.
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Shakespeare was one of the most influential and well known playwrights of the time
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Device named Galileo's Thermometer was created in the early 17th century by his students. But the thermometer truly created by Galileo in 1593 was able display a temperature difference between 2 things, with no way to show the actual temperature.
