What was the role of the master builder

Well i might get reported for putting this out here buutt why do we all have to bow down to a greater being? yes i accept that there is someone higher that keeps most people going but for me its like something to throw to keep one in their what is the purpose of a religion and why do they always throw that if one dosent obide by the lord he will shun them?

In 1401 a competition to create a set of bronze doors for the baptistery of florence cathedral was held, and this competition is often credited with the beginning of renaissance art t or f?

1520 is the date scholars generally give for the end of the? a. northern renaissance b. high renaissance c. gothic period d. mannerism period