The middle ages church held power with political leaders and the people.
After the middle ages the church lost it's power. Both with political leaders and the people.
Henery VIII wanted an annulment, when not granted he started his own church. But took a massive amount of land from the church.
Made a massive amount of money by selling church positions, to the nobility.
In terms of education. Middle ages highly illiterate. Renaissance literate came back to the people. Particularly because of the printing press.
Because he wanted to impress the king and also prove a scientific theory that the earth was round. He thought that Spain could conquer the spice islands and start importing spices into his country.
I don’t know but it seems like the more presidents we have the more our country goes into flames