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-Italian people believed that a thousand years between their era & the Roman Empire was a middle period (hence, Middle Ages) full of darkness because of lack of classical culture -Scholars dont believe that the Renaissance was a dramatic change in culture but economical, political & social life progressed -The Renaissance was a distinct period of European history that manifested itself first in Italy then spread throughout Europe -Renaissance Italy was an urban society & was mostly a land of independent cities that dominated the country districts around them -The Renaissance was & age of recovery from the Black Death -Italians became interested in the Greco-Roman culture of the ancient Mediterranean world -A high regard for human dignity & worth & a realization of individual potentiality created a new social ideal of the wellrounded personality or universal person who was capable of achievements in many areas of life