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3 days ago · Florence, birthplace of the Italian Renaissance. The architectural perspective and new systems of banking and accounting were introduced during the time. The Renaissance ( UK: / rəˈneɪsəns / rən-AY-sənss, US: / ˈrɛnəsɑːns / ⓘ REN-ə-sahnss) [1] [2] [a] is a period in history and a cultural movement in Europe marking the transition ...
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5 days ago · Protestantism, movement that began in northern Europe in the early 16th century as a reaction to medieval Roman Catholic doctrines and practices. Along with Roman Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy, Protestantism became one of three major forces in Christianity. Learn more about Protestantism in this article.
2 days ago · England, which had subsumed Wales in the 16th century under Henry VIII, united with Scotland in 1707 to form a new sovereign state called Great Britain. Following the Industrial Revolution, which started in England, Great Britain ruled a colonial Empire, the largest in recorded history.
3 days ago · No British writer could ignore the French wars of religion in the late 16th century, nor the outpouring of works on resistance and on monarchical authority spawned by that conflict. From the early 1620s, moreover, the English political nation was deeply troubled by the events in Europe and particularly by the seizure of the Palatinate.
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5 days ago · In the 16th century, there was a big change in the way some Christians worshipped God. Up until the 16th century most people were Roman Catholic and the Pope in Rome was the head of all the Christian Church. In 1517, a German monk called Martin Luther led a breakaway from the Roman Catholic church.
4 days ago · Sheffield remains an unique example where the 16th-century chapel within the church – now a cathedral – remained consecrated for Catholic worship long after the Reformation and was only ceded, ‘for the use of parishioners’, in 1933 for Anglican usage.
