Answer: portraying religious leaders
Explanation: Renaissance artists would portray religious figures such as Jesus and Mary, but used backgrounds in Greece and Rome. They also painted well known people of the day that had individual achievements.
The main reason why the South was so upset by Lincoln’s election in 1860 is because he had made it clear that he was opposed to slavery, which was the primary driving force of the South's economy.
During the century that followed Pax Romana, Rome had many leaders because men were fighting for power of the empire. This time period is know as "The Crisis of the Third Century ". It was during this time that the Roman Empire almost collapsed entirely because of several combined pressures including civil war, invasions, plague and economic depression.
