... took over from Greek civilisation. The Romans built impressive public buildings all over Europe, like the Colosseum in Rome. Italiens started to look around them and take interest and pride in what had survived from the time of the centre of the Roman Empire. Their ideas on art and architecture were influenced by art and architecture from the classical period. Italian scholars began to take an interest in these original manuscripts and learnt Greek from the Greek scholars. Their interest was so great that they started to search for other ancient manuscripts. These works opened up whole new areas of thought and encourages people to think again about long-accepted ideas and beliefs. Humanists were people who behaved as if all their thoughts and actions would one day be judged by God- a view of eternity, According to the Church, everyone was sinful in one way or another. The ancient ideas ...

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