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The Renaissance was a cultural movement that spanned roughly the 14th to the 17th century, beginning in Florence in the Late Middle Ages and later spreading to the rest of Europe and is used to refer to the historic era of this period. While huge revolutions & evolutions occurred in intellectual thought, arts, science, and the social order, numerous wars were also fought, some of the most notable being;

Fall of Constantinople (1453); Wars of the Roses (1455–1485); Italian Wars (1494–1559); Spanish conquest of the Aztec & Inca Empires (1519-1572); Eighty Years' War (1568-1648); Anglo-Spanish War (1585-1604); Dutch–Portuguese War (1602-1661); Thirty Years' War (1618-1648); Two Bishops Wars & Three English Civil Wars (1639-1653); Three Anglo-Dutch Wars & the Anglo-Spanish War (1652-1674); and the Nine Years War & the early Williamite & Jacobite Uprisings (1688-1692).

The period merges into the Eighteenth Century (and true ‘modern history’) with the Great Northern War, War of the Spanish Succession, & Queen Anne’s War (1700-1713)...