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Humanism is going back to the classics. Humanism isn’t just the study of Literature and Philosophy it also includes many other aspects such as architecture and music. Anything that is studying “classic works” to extend human knowledge is considered Humanist. Humanists studied ancient things so that they could use the examples for their own work. The classical works were pre-Christianity and used reason to explain things. By studying how humanists before them used reason instead of religion to explain things they learned from it. In the Italian Classical period Humanism was more the study of human values and human activities as opposed to religious belief. The Northern Christian Renaissance was a mix between the old and the new way of doing things and it focused more on Christianity. The Italian Classical Period was more focused on learning about humans rather than secular things. However, they were not ignoring religion in any way. The Classical humanism