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What were the features of humanist thought?

Various features of the humanist thought are:-

1) It was a restoration of the civilisation from the Dark Age after the fall of the Roman Empire.


2) Firstly, Humanism stressed the human skills individually. The person with many skills and interests was called as Renaissance.


3) Secondly, Humanist thought had a different idea of history. According to this thought, humanism could only revive the long past and the true civilisation.


Explanation: This new Age would end the period of Supremacy of the Church. The basis of humanism was of the beliefs of Christianity. These thoughts also revived the Greek architecture literature.


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