The people of western Europe needed a source of protection from many invading threats with order.
By reopening the Silk Road, Europe and other continents restablished cone tins with places like the Middle East and Africa. Muslim scholars in these areas preserved Ancient Greek and Roman text, which where rediscovered by Europeans and translated into English, Italian, Spanish, ect. which caused the Italian and northern Renicance. Humanism is literature, history, poems, just things that study humans in general. Humanism was common in the Rennicanse. (Sorry, I think I spelled Renicance wrong)
Richmond, Virginia was the capital
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They built missions in borderlands of new Spain because the wanted to start settlements