HIST 100 Chapter 12: Chapter 12 Pt 1
18 Sep 2016
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Renaissance clergy and conservatives warn them for putting too much trust in human virtue, rationality, and self-efficiency . The context for the renaissance: formation of city-states in italy. Commercial activity caused towns to be scattered around europe and city life was especially apparent in italy (trade routes created employment for a large population) 4/5 of the largest european cities of 1400 were in italy (venice, florence, milan, genoa) Italian cities got power over the surrounding lands which made city-states and although the area controlled was often small, the wealth from trade made their power comparable to large countries in n europe. Compared to european cities which were limited by their city walls and had political operation inside as well as being ruled by a larger kingdom. Geography of italy allowed for political division (some city-states were once civitates of the. Others owed origin to economic and political situations (like division of carolingian.
