What was the Renaissance? 1 a period of artistic and literary achievements in Europe--from the late fourteenth to the early seventeenth centuries--inspired by new interest in the classics

2 a period--during the thirteenth century--of renewed interest in ancient civilizations in Europe

3 the eighteenth-century era of renewed interest in classical Greece and Rome

4 the rebirth of classical learning in the Middle East between the late fourteenth and the early seventeenth centuries