The Medici family were wool merchants and bankers. The Medici family owned much of their wealth and power to the Medici bank.

Martin Luther studied the bible and he took 95 points and nailed to the door of the catholic church. Then he got kicked out of the church and his group made a new one.

He made a book he learned how to read and study. He was learning about the Greek sources. He also studied the planets he found out that the sun was in the middle not the earth.

The most famous building is Basilica of st. Peter it took 120 years to complete it. It took from 1506 to 1626 it is a church.El Escorial - This majestic building was built in the late 1500s as the palace of the King of Spain.Palazzo Pitti - Originally built in 1458.