gunzapper

As Italian I could try to give you an explanation about the difference between North and South Italy. Basically it derives from the unification process, during the last part of 19th century. Someone thinks the South payed more in this process. Someone else argues that it depends on economic and political differences present before the unification. North was an ensemble of little states, South a large state related to Spanish monarchy.

But It is not a kind of phylosophy the Key of the modern age, but It is the possibility to reject any dotrine.

But you have to consider that those are the same philosophies wide adopted from the church itself.

In that Age there was so many processes in the name of Plato or Aristoteles...

The main difference between Europe and other country in that Age was that Europe was divided in relative small nations, not a big Empire. This permitted to have more chance to be supported for a Discovery or an invention.