<span>a. Italian city-states were wealthy because of their various ports which brought the wealth and ideas to Italy from around the known world.</span>
<span>France wanted to break the power of the Catholic Hapsburgs monarchs, who ruled in Spain, Austria, and the Holy Roman Empire. So, the helped the Protestants... :)</span>
It was to honor the greek god Zeus
Two of the most important factors in encouraging western settlement in the US were 1) extremely cheap or sometimes even free land in the west, and 2) events like the Gold Rush, which made settlers think they could get rich quickly.
