The city's economy and its writers, painters, architects, and philosophers all made Florence a model of Renaissance culture.
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Rome continued to decline after that until AD 476 when the western Roman Empire came to an end. The eastern Roman Empire, more commonly known as the Byzantine Empire, survived until the 15th century AD. It fell when Turks took control of its capital city, Constantinople (modern day Istanbul in Turkey) in AD 1453.
Literature is directly affected by events in society. The Industrial Revolution marked an impact in literature by changing the themes authors mostly wrote about. Authors started to focus on topics such as technology, materialism, and the possible disadvantages of technology.