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[[Image:Pieta.jpg|thumb|Michelangelo, The Pieta.]]

[[Image:Uffizi Gallery.jpg|thumb|300px|Galleria degli Uffizi]]

'''The Renaissance''' holds it roots in the taking of the Byzantine capital of [[Constantinople]] by the [[Ottoman Turks]] in the year 1453 A.D. After the fall of the western half of the Roman Empire, the Eastern half continued to flourish as the [[Byzantine Empire]] while [[Europe]] entered the [[Dark Ages]] where most of the learning from the [[Roman Empire]] was lost. However, the knowledge continued to pass down in the East until the scholars' flight to Italy as their empire was dismembered.

'''The Renaissance''' holds it roots in the taking of the Byzantine capital of [[Constantinople]] by the [[Ottoman Turks]] in the year 1453 A.D. After the fall of the western half of the Roman Empire, the Eastern half continued to flourish as the [[Byzantine Empire]] while [[Europe]] entered the [[Dark Ages]] where most of the learning from the [[Roman Empire]] was lost. However, the knowledge continued to pass down in the East until the scholars' flight to Italy as their empire was dismembered.