First off let’s not think of this as a history lesson let’s think of this as an actual representation of a science model now what does the soil do for the plant that’s the real question here so if the ( soil provides a base which the roots hold on to as a plant grows bigger ) than Europe is the base at which grows the renaissance do to the spread of the seeds the growth of city stages onto Europe with the help of water people traveling becoming more commerce all across the soil Europe all of which the soil Europe helped grow the plant The Renaissance.
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