Question

what do you understand by the term 'renaissance'?

Answer 1

it was the revival of European art and literature under the influence of classical models in the 14th–16th centuries.

Answer 2

 the period in european civilization immediately following the middle ages and conventionally held to have been characterized by a surge of interest in classical scholarship and values. the renaissance also witnessed the discovery and exploration of new continents, the substitution of the copernican for the ptolemaic system of astronomy, the decline of the feudal system and the growth of commerce, and the invention or application of such potentially powerful innovations as paper, printing, the mariner’s compass, and gunpowder.