The musical Renaissance period spans from approximately 1400 until 1600 and as the society was changing so did the musical preference and language into a more polyphonic style.
Question: Which musical element is an innovation attributed to the Renaissance?
Answer: <u><em>B) word painting</em></u> (especially Italian and English composers used this in the madrigals in this era)
Factories/textile mills, were usually located by rivers, which in a literal sense, would be powered by a water turbine/wheel in the river. The Factory workers consisted mostly of children and women, especially in textile mills. The women ran the factory, and factories were powered by water turbines. I didn't know which type of answer you wanted, so you can pick from either one or take both.