The Enlightenment
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This period of history is commonly known as the Renaissance.
The Renaissance is often referred to as the birth of learning because it was like a rebirth or reawakening after the Middle Ages. Artists and scholars looked back to the learning and knowledge of ancient Rome and Greece to increase their understanding of the world.
It lasted from about 1400 to 1600, during which renewed intrest in classical culture led to far-reaching changes In art, learning, and views of the world.
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The Middle Ages. "Dark Ages" was invented by people living in the later Renaissance period, because they thought that living in a time without the benefit of the knowledge and full appreciation of the art and philosophiy of ancient Rome an Greece meant that you were 'living in the dark'. In reality, there was nothing 'dark' about the middle ages. It was a period full of development and discovery. "Middle" Ages simply indicates that this was the period between Antiquity and Renaissance.