Civic engagement:
Basically reaching out to the public helping to gain their votes AND actually following through with them because they could turn on them and not want to vote for them
The Catholic church considered any new ideas that went against their beliefs (such as the heliocentric theory) to be heresy.
Well, It could be the Ute's or Navajos
The correct answer is option C. "They were important centers of trade with the East and the Byzantine Empire". Italian city-states were prosperous as they served as centers of trade of the Byzantine Empire with the rest of the world in the East. The italian states seized the opportunity of making profits from the transport and sale of goods from one end of the known world to the other.
