The Great Awakening, because it was a religious revival that encouraged people to go back to church and join a religion.
Marco Polo traveled during the middle ages (AP period 3), for this the communication technology was not very advanced and Western Europe didn't really know the situation of East Asia and vice versa. When Marco Polo explained his travels to the Europeans of the greatness of China many Europeans decided to go and see for themselves if this greatness was indeed true. When the Europeans arrived in China they were very impressed and a new promotion of travel to China emerged, INCREASING China's economy.
Taft’s passage of the Payne-Aldrich Tariff Act created a problem for Roosevelt progressives because <span>it raised taxes.
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Culturally, the medieval era was dominated by the church which emphasized human beings' lowliness in contrast to the greatness and holiness of God. The church remained strong in the Renaissance, but humanists of the Renaissance emphasized the God-given capabilities of human beings, created to do great things. And so, many great things were done by energetic and imaginative human beings of the Renaissance -- in art, architecture, literature, science, etc.
Socially, politically, and economically, medieval life focused on feudalism and agricultural life. The people lived on lands owned by the great landowners (the nobility), and the political power centered in the hands of those nobles. Economic value was tied to land ownership and agricultural production. In the Renaissance, cities rose to prominence. Banking and trade and budding industries became new ways of generating wealth, social status, and political power.
