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The Western world that people know today is in debt to many different civilizations, cultures, and movements. One of the movements that the modern western world owes its ideas and concepts to is the rational movement which sprouted within the Classical Age of Greece. Another movement that has helped to shape modern Western Civilization is the humanism movement of the Renaissance. Few cultures or civilizations have reached the intellectual height Greece did in the Classical period. In material contributions to Western society they did little compared to the Romans and other Oriental peoples. The Classical times of Greece were full of emotional and intellectual innovations and took the father of western civilization, Greece, to a higher level of quality of life. The Classical period was full of challenges to the former world-view based on superstitions and supernaturalism. These challenges were encompassed within the rational movement. The rational movement sought to study the physical world in the light of rational thought, rather than a myth-making understanding. It helped to shape the way we view and think of science, politics, and society. The rational movement is considered by many scholars to be the foundation for scienc