To keep out Northern savages. I think :P
A. trade with other parts of the world was expanded.
B. a civil service system based on merit was begun to fill government positions.
C. Territorial borders were expanded.
E. Silk was discovered
and F. Schools were set up to teach Confucian ideas
<span>Humanism influences Renaissance art and scholarship by advocating a return to the human form itself--especially in the world of paining and sculpture--as opposed to focussing primarily on God and the Church. </span>
The continent of asia because he believed he discovered india