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=__The Start of the Renaissance__=

The Crusaders went to the holy land, Jerusalem, to expand their knowledge on religion from the Muslims. The Crusaders saw that the Muslims were much more advanced than all of western Europe. The Crusaders came back with this "new-found" knowledge from the Muslims, which expanded people's thinking.This new knowledge was not actually new. Although the Crusaders learned about it in the middle east, some of the philosophy and science they brought back was information from Ancient Greece, Ancient Egypt, and China.

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The reason most of western Europe was unaware, and very behind in science and philosophy was because the Church knew that with out this knowledge the people would rely heavily on the church to give them answers. So the Church had removed almost all of the few books and other information to keep the people clueless and dependent of the church.

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