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How did the Renaissance begin? By: Reed & Nick · After the fall of the Roman Empire. · Renaissance means 're birth'. · Europe was still part of the Middle Ages. · Historians assign different labels to different Eras. · Christians Europeans believed that God was the center of the universe. · People lived with the central point of their beliefs. · No one disagreed with the church’s ideas. · Art/Architecture was influenced by the church’s beliefs. · Some armies made crusades to help recapture ideas from the Middle East. · The Holy Land wanted to be protected from these armies by the religious people of that area. · Thousands of religious people came to these Holy sites. · Europe understood that there were other countries in the world.

Answer: The Renaissance began after the fall of the Roman Empire, it means the rebirth of society. People now could do anything they wanted, they could freely express their ideas about humanism, art and ethics. Before the Renaissance the Catholic church basically influenced everything that the people made, like paintings, statues and architecture. The inhabitants of the Holy Land wanted to protect the Holy sites from the crusades of the Roman Empire. If someone made something that was against the Catholic church they would ask them to destroy the painting or statue or else you would be burned at the stake. Europe found more countries outside of their own countries.

Below is a picture of the barbarians attacking Rome.