To have been a person of the renaissance meant:
to love wine, women, and song
to engage in art and artistic pleasures
to open yourself to learning and inquiry
to engage in social subversion

small european communities with shared traditions consolidated into large new states (apex)

what are two things that greatly the american economy after the war? the huge buildup of u.s. military the beginning of the korean conflict the creation of the gi bill the marshall plan for nations