The title of the map would be: "The states that made up the Italian Nation in the fifteenth century"
One of the distinctive features of the political organization in Italy was the importance of the city-states and in particular of the republics, which in the fifteenth century some had lost their independence, but not the Renaissance cities such as Florence and Venice. At the beginning of the fifteenth century the Italian territory was very fragmented in states of varying size and importance. The decline of the cities had led to a process of institutional strengthening, concluded with the establishment of signorie (the equivalent of the Iberian lordships), together with the oligarchic republics, founded previously.
This was an example of Transcendentalism.
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The southern part of China and its northern part are total contrasts when it comes to the climate. The southern part is coming out on sea, and it is on lower latitude. Because of this, this part of China is covered with tropical vegetation, having a wet and dry seasons. The temperatures are mostly over 30 C degrees, the precipitation is very high when the monsoons are wet, and almost totally absent when the monsoons are dry. The northern part, on the other side, is far away from the sea, and it is also on higher elevation. This part is also on higher latitude. The landscape is dominated by desert and semi-desert. The precipitation is very low because this part is not reached by the moisture from the sea, and it is heavily influenced by the continental air masses. This results in very high temperatures in the summer, exceeding 35 C degrees, and very low temperatures in winter, going below -40 C degrees.
Answer: The Lewis and Clark Expedition began in 1804, when President Thomas Jefferson ... with exploring lands west of the Mississippi River that comprised the Louisiana Purchase. The expedition provided new geographic, ecological and social information about previously uncharted areas of North America.
