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Looking for one main factor, I feel the intellectual bridge between the Late Dark Ages/Renaissance/Enlightenment over into the Modern Era was ironically the mechanical SteamEngine/Industrialization. All religion/ideology/humanism aside, the exponential quantitative shift to mass production/transport defines Western society to this day, only recently during Covid19's lockdown and its repercussions are we reminded how monotonously dependent modern society is on this one main mechanism. Steam killed the Troubadour.