What major social changes occurred during the Renaissance and what influenced these changes?

A rise of a middle class and capitalist market economy caused by the black plague and fall of fuedalism

Explanation:

The most recgonizable change during the Renaissance was the fall of feudalism and the rise of a capitalist market economy.  An increase in trade and a labor shortage caused by the Black Death created a middle class.

the phenomenon that would be cited as evidence of increased economic interdependence between europe and the americas is  the development of mercantilism.

this theory suggests that the wealth of a country depends on its economic assets, or capital.

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