The Renaissance (in Italian "Rinascimento") started in the region Tuscany during 1500s.
But it started precisely in the city of Florence.
Why?
1) recovery after an economic and social crisis.
2) bankruptcy.
3) plague.
4) famine.
5) civil wars.
6) Milan threats Florence.
7) Gian Galeazzo Visconti wants to create a national state governed by Milan.
8) Florence wanted more indipendence.
Also Florence was a city anti-aristocratics, with a secondary role of the Pope and the Church. Florence had a corporative system, and big families of bankers and merchants (like Medici).
Consier also that a lot of "Signori", especially in Florence used to pay painters, sculptors and writers.
Florence is also called "The city of art". Florence always had great artists...
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In the War of 1812, caused by British restrictions on U.S. trade and America's desire to expand its territory, the United States took on the greatest naval power in the world, Great Britain.
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How and why did cultures develop both unique and shared characteristics including art, religion, customs, government and structure in ancient China?
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The Spread Of Chinese Civilization To Japan
Author: Stearns, Peter N.
Date: 2000
The Spread Of Chinese Civilization To Japan
Although its full impact on global history has not been felt until the
last century or so, the transmission of key elements in Chinese culture to the
offshore islands that came to make up Japan clearly provides one of the most
important examples of the spread of civilization from a central core area to
neighboring or overseas peoples. In the 1st centuries A.D., the peoples of
Japan imported a wide range of ideas, techniques of production, institutional
models, and material objects from the Chinese mainland. After adapting these
imports to make them compatible with the quite sophisticated culture they had
previously developed, the Japanese used what they had borrowed from China to
build a civilization of their own. New patterns of rice growing and handicraft
B. They were the largest participants in the Great Migration.
