In the 15th century, Florence, period known as the <em>Early Renaissance</em>, was not a city in the united country of Italy as we know it nowadays. Italy was fractioned into many city-states, each with their own kind of government; Florence was a republic in which there existed a Constitution, which mainly restricted the power of the aristocrats and made certain that no person, nor group of people could have total political control of the republic. Political power belonged in the hands of the middle-class merchants, a few wealthy families, such as the Medici family, and the influential societies. The Florentine people were very proud of their form of government, due to the fact that a republic government respects the individualisms.
Renaissance began in Florence because opulence accumulated during this period, between a growing middle and upper class of bankers and merchants. By the 15th century, Florence had fulfilled a high level of prosperity because of its important position on the main Mediterranean trade routes, and its wool industry. In the same period, Florence accomplish one of its major military tests, the effort of the Duke of Milan to bring Florence under his rule and with that to dominate Italy. The victory produced a huge upward in the Florentines civic confidence and cultural activity. It was in this cheerful climate that an extraordinary group of artists and intellectuals formed under the patronage of the Medici family; this artists began to create new ways of vision and thought, initiating with the first period of Renaissance in Italy.
<span>the city in mexico that the american troop captured during the war was : Mexico City
This happen during the Mexican-American war, in which the General from the united states army named Winfield Scott managed to capture the city and raised American flag over the hall of Montezuma </span>
The population was dissatisfied with the Republican policies and the promises Obama made had been very enticing.
Explanation:
Obama was an unlikely president in spite of his long winded political career and savvy politics not the least because of his skin color and the nature of the country at the time in the middle of a long winded war on terror that did not look like it was going to end any time soon.
Obama was elected as a polar opposite alternative to the President Bush who had not made the people satisfied with his efforts and the country seemed to be in a huge crisis in his time.
Probably because he stayed possitive and worked hard to improve the westward growth.
