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The increase in trade helped enlarge towns and cities in Europe because it gave the towns and cities an economic base upon which to grow
Italy had three advantages that made it the birthplace of the Renaissance: thriving cities, a wealthy merchant class, and the classical heritage of Greece and Rome. Overseas trade, spurred by the Crusades, had led to the growth of large city-states in northern Italy. The region also had many sizable towns.
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