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How did renaissance Europe differ from medieval Europe

A) high languages like Latin predominated in literature
B) populations shifted from cities to small towns and rural villages
C) scholars focused more on secular humanities
D) trade with nations beyond Europe decreased

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B) populations shifted from cities to small towns and rural villages
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The third answer is correct (C).

The Renaissance was an intellectual and cultural movement in Europe around the fourteenth century, which sought to "reborn" the Greco-Roman Classical Antiquity culture, ie humanism. The Renaissance believed that in the Classical World there had been a free culture of medieval religiosity.

Thus, unlike the medieval era, which was theocentric, in the Renaissance man has the central role in all questions. According to the humanists, the center of all research should be the human being and not the religion. This change of mentality gives freedom to the human being to pursue his vocations to work, can profit and can seek pleasure and happiness.

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