HIS109Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: American Revolution, Scientific Revolution, Ninety-Five Theses
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The renaissance allowed florence to define themselves and also to create a meaningful culture. They were heavily influenced on cicero and his example and how he contributed to the state and was a great orator role model: gave rise to whole new way of interpreting reality. The ideas developed in italy could form a point of contact with a very different society north of the alps: at the end of the italian renaissance, the development of ideas (like machiavelli"s. The prince, castiglione"s the courtier) made society more aristocratic and more like the alps: northern europe was full of kingdoms that had hierarchies that were based on the monarchy and aristocracy of land. The greatest status was still held from people in feudal families, who had great estates. The rise of long-distance trade, the need for a system for this to happen, the need for adjudication and a legal system.
