The global mid-ocean ridge is the longest mountain chain on the earth. It is a continuous chain of mountains found on the ocean floor, encircling the globe and over 5,000 miles long. It is formed from sea floor spreading. Plates are moving apart and volcanic activity forms the mountains.
The Northern Renaissance started latter than the Italian Renaissance, and it is not until the second half of the 15th Century that the spirit of classical revival began to take hold upon Germany, France, and England.Albrecht D rer -. Erasmus of Rotterdam. National Gallery of Art, Washington. difference between the Northern Renaissance and the Italian Renaissance was that, while in Italy the intellectual impulse came from above, in Germany the work began at the bottom. There was a slow build up of a system of elementary education, out of which leaders were to be developed.
The Renaissance is generally considered to have started in Florence, Italy around the years 1350 to 1400. The start of the Renaissance also was the end of the Middle Ages. One of the big changes in the Renaissance was in the basic way people thought about things.