Question

Match the following events to the effects they produced.

Answer 1

A) Hundred years war
B) Italian Wars


Italy was never a nation-state, therefore it turned into a power vacuum -The fall of Constantinople (this limited trade) -Failure of the Peace of Lodi -Sforza invited Charles VIII of France in to Italy to invade

Answer 2

Fall of Constantinople - Caused an influx of classical Greek and Roman knowledge and texts into Europe

Hundred Years' War - Paved the way for the entry of Renaissance ideas of peace and renewal

Italian Wars - Led to the introduction of the Renaissance thought and ideas to France