The Renaissance was known as the cultural bridge between the middle and modern ages. It started at the beginning of the 13th century to the beginning of the end of the 17th century. The Renaissance was important to human history because, it began what is known as the modern ages where a new type of thinking known as Humanism began to appear. Humanism means that people are focusing on their time on earth instead of the church or heaven and instead focusing on individuality and human achievement. In the Renaissance,many people began to accept this new way of thinking, throughout this paper there will be six different figures/events/ideas that with reflect on this way of thinking. For the first example of a humanist figure/event/idea, we have