in what ways were the wealthy europeans of the renaissance differnent from the wealthy europeans of feudal times?
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The Middle Ages or Early Renaissance, before the feudal system collapsed. Some of his language suggests Italy, but it could be anywhere in Western Europe.
Feudal tenants are the folks who rent betterments from a feudal landlord.
a labourer who labours under a feudal system
For the most part, European powers were ruled by monarchies. Perhaps only in France, after the French Revolution, were governments not led by monarchs.The Renaissance helped Europe on an intellectual basis, as did the Enlightenment. If anything, the increased powers of central governments led to an awareness that growth and power could more easily be improved by developing colonial empires. In a certain way, this expanded the so-called business class or middle classes that saw the profit in overseas expansion.