HISTORY
THE RENAISSANCE AND REFORMATION
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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was home to many people from China and Japan
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remained loyal to the Pope during the Reformation
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avoided being affected by the plagues that struck Europe
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was a wealthy center of trade in the late Medieval period
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Detailed explanation-1: -Much of Florence’s wealth was dependent on the manufacture or trade of cloth, primarily wool. Wool of superior quality was often purchased unfinished and untreated from England and Iberia. Florentine textile workers then cleaned, carded, spun, dyed, and wove the wool into cloth of excellent quality.
Detailed explanation-2: -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.
Detailed explanation-3: -Explain why Florence became the birthplace of the Renaissance, and presided over so many of the period’s achievements? Florence prospered during the Renaissance because of its lines of communication to the world around it. In the late Middle Ages, the city became important as a crossroads for wool traders.