What historical event influenced people of the Renaissance to view their lives
less controlled by fate and more open to opportunity?

I believe it is because humanism became a thing. Humanism is a system of belief where it lets people start to believe that people are more important than religious religious concepts like believing that something bad happened because god is mad at the people.

What can i say except yep ur welcome for the tides the stars and the sky

Aroman building for the lower class.