Five Important Events in History Essay #1. For all practical purposes, the Renaissance / Early Modern Period is distinguished from other periods in European history almost entirely in intellectual or cultural terms. As far as larger historical patterns are concerned, the period is more or less considered as playing out what had been set up in the later Middle Ages. The Italian Renaissance was seen as a "prototype of the modern world" and changed the way people …showed first 75 words of 1701 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1701 total…Themes 5 and 6 because it changed the way that structure of government and states was changed from one ruler to many small "rulers". The Magna Carta is also an intellectual change as it affected the way that people look at government and state structure. This document is a milestone in history, as it reserves the natural rights of every peasant, farmer, noble, or merchant increasing rights, and restricts the ability of a king to overuse power.