<span>Assuming that this is referring to the same list of options that was posted before with this question, <span>the correct response would be that the Articles of Confederation allowed the central government to declare war and sign treaties, since this was practically all the government could do under the Articles. </span></span>
Italy was not a unified nation in the 1500's but a series of regions and city-states which shared the same peninsula in the Mediterranean Sea. The power/domination of the Church of Rome had lost influenc.