How did popes and powerful families contribute to the flourishing of renaissance art?

The main way in which popes and powerful families contributed to the flourishing of Renaissance art was that they funded much of it--since they were the only people who had enough money to pay the artists to create. 

The three steps before modern english were indo-european, germanic, and old english. as peoples moved around the eurasian continent, their languages changed. throughout the ages, the languages became more specialized. as english has many germanic influences, it is easy to see how this was one of the forebears. also, old english was one of the main ancestors of the modern language, spoken in the 5th through about the 13th centuries.