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But the Renaissance was simply an increase of technology, life standards (which did lead to many good things) AND Greek philosophy (which was still being studied as early as the Carolingian renaissance, but the Greek schools were completely bankrolled during the medieval period). It included really everything I stated in the OP (after wearing blue jeans).
You can trace this all to Socratic and Pythagorean philosophy, from that to Babylon, and from that to Sumer, after the fall of man.
The industrial revolution made this a lot easier.