During the Renaissance, the merchant class developed and began to exercise civic power. What led to this transition? What did it
mean for the majority of people? How did this impact the monarchy over time? How did this change government in much of Europe and the eventually the Americas? NO LINKS
Europe began to prioritize middle class bankers and merchants, which took power away from the nobles, over time this had made knowledge surprisingly more accessible with people learning the basics of reading, writing, and math for trade it also made the social class change very dramatically with merchants now being wealthy and respectable.
