UPSC History Optional · Paper II · 1993 · Q6 · 60 marks
Assess the intellectual quickening which occurred in Europe in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. How did it influence modern society and civilization?
- Chapter
- Enlightenment and Modern ideas
- Topic
- The Renaissance
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