The Middle Ages ended around 1500 A.D., when a revival of interest in classical learning, the arts, and music spread across the Old World. Simultaneously, the New World of the Western Hemisphere was "discovered". I use the term "discovered" lightly because the Vikings and others had traveled to those shores years before, and ancient civilizations had already risen and fallen in the Western Hemisphere. Perhaps the Old World and New World "merging" would be a better way to describe what happened in 1492. At any rate, between the 14th and 17th centuries, there was a "rebirth" of ancient learning, interest in the arts and sciences, and the economy across Europe. This period is called the Renaissance, which means "rebirth."
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