Renaissance is a term with a variety of meanings, but is used widely in discussion of European
history. Renaissance originates from the Latin word Rinascere and refers to the act of being reborn. It is not unreasonable for the time period of about 1400AD to around 1600AD to be referred to as theRenaissance, since it was a time in which Europe was reborn. It was a dangerous world in which people were faced with many obsiticles, catastrophic events, emmense suffering and tests of faith and strength.
The Renaissance time period, was the direct result of the many hardships, which caused the rebirth of science, art, and religion.
Besides being a very dangerous and unsafe time period due to war and violence, the Renaissance is also known for being one of the most disease infested time periods in Europian history. At the time people did not posses any knowledge of antibiotics, antiseptic practices, modern medicine and cures. Surgury often failed killing the patient and it certainly did not help that the people had very poor diets, crowded housing, dirty streets and rivers, abundant rasts, fleas, lice, and seldomly washed
clothing. Diseases such as typhus, smallpox, typhoid

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completely self-serving. For example, after a person's death, one could pay the church to pray for him/her, thus sending them to heaven. It benifited the rich and powerful, paving their way into heaven, while leaving the poor to be punished for sins and crimes. Marin Luther who started the reformation believed that they are saved by their faith alone, not by the their wealth and power. He represented the voice of the people, particullarly the poor who's opinions did not count. His goal was to take power away from the pope and give it back to god and the people where it belonged. Eventually, he managed the restore the church's original purpose, the helping of other. The rebirth of the Catholic religion was another very important aspect of the renaissance society which resulted from the suffering of the people.

Dispite the fact that the Renaissance was full of war, violence, religious conflint, disease, famine, and death, the people of Europe managed to turn the situation around to their advantage,creating the rebirth of their societies. The Renaissance era, was the direct result of the people's suffering which created the rebirth and growth of science, art, and religion.

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