In the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, political and social structures were drastically altered by the concept that that humans can achieve, on their own, without having to rely on God. This concept is also known as humanism. During the Renaissance a man named Niccolo Machiavelli wrote The Prince. The Prince was a document that taught people at the time how they could achieve to gain power, A specific excerpt from chapter twenty-five of this document, “ I hold it true that Fortune is the arbiter of one-half of our actions, but that she still leaves us to direct the other half, or perhaps a little less.” This excerpt basically explains that chance comes into play only some of the time in your life, but in order to obtain your goals you must
