<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>
Slavic and Scandinavian countries are very rich in resources, and Russia wanted to control most trade in Europe until the collapse of the Soviet Union. More trade = More power and they were still recovering after the HARD losses when the Germans' invaded Leningrad and the war.
He made the covenant with Abraham
Christians wanted to regain control of the Holy Land from Muslims.
