Why did the Renaissance Start in Italy? The Renaissance started in Italy because of three reasons. One reason is because of Italy’s flourishing cities. The cities brought in trade‚ allowing new ideas to be spread. The Medici family /merchant class‚ trade‚ and new ideas in architecture and building designs allowed Italy to have such great cities. The second reason is because of the well educated people that lived there. These educated people developed new ideas and philosophies such as Humanism
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cuisine of Puglia (Apulia)‚ Italy Central Idea: Apuglia (a lesser known region in Italy) has some of the brightest seas and beautiful landscapes‚ rich history‚ diverse culture‚ mouthwatering food and kindest people of Italy. Introduction I. How many of you have heard of the Tuscany or Sicily regions of Italy? Or the bigger cities of Italy: Rome‚ Milan‚ Naples or Venice? A. Most people in the United States are very familiar with these regions and cities of Italy. II. But how many of you have
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MACROECONOMIC SITUATION AND FORECAST - iTALY (Seminar work) In view of current economic situation in European Union I choose for my seminar work Italy‚ which is one of the most affected countries by financial crisis. Coupled with three more southern European states that are known by term PIGS. First time became this unflattering term in 1990s as name of countries with similar economic environments and it originally referred to the economies of Portugal‚ Italy‚ Greece and Spain. The acronym became
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Fascism in Germany and Italy Many similarities exist between German fascism‚ or Nazism‚ and Italian fascism. For example‚ both fascist movements were brought into power after facing very similar problems. One of the major problems that both countries encountered was a post-war economy teeming with instability. Germany’s fragile economy was undermined by widespread unemployment‚ hyperinflation‚ and burdensome reparation payments‚ while Italy’s economy was just as delicate. In addition‚ the Great
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Germany’s apparent political and military ally in Europe was Italy. Since 1925‚ Italian had been controlled by an autocrat leadership under Benito Mussolini. Italian fascism was very much the older brother of Nazism‚ a fact Hitler himself admitted. All of their intellectual resemblance‚ the connection between Hitler and Mussolini was rough and complex. The adjustment of their two countries was accordingly not as firm as many expected. Germany and Italy had become military allies by late 1930s‚ however their
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Totalitarianism in the Soviet Union‚ Italy‚ and Germany (by the way‚ all my essays are not very in depth because we have to write 2-3 600 word essays every week!) A totalitarian government is a modern autocratic regime in which the state controls all phases of society. It not only seeks to control the economical and political aspects of society‚ but also tries to direct the daily lives of its citizens. Totalitarianism strives to influence the attitudes‚ beliefs‚ and opinions of its people through
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The 5 themes of Geography Florence‚ Italy Location Absolute Location: Latitude: 43° 46’ 0" N Longitude: 11° 15’ 0" E Relative Location: The major countries around it are France‚ Switzerland‚ Austria‚ & Slovenia as direct neighbors sharing a land border. Place Human: Some human features such as The Basilica di Santa Maria del Fiore is the main church of Florence‚ Italy. The Palazzo Medici is a Renaissance palace. David is a masterpiece of Renaissance sculpture created by
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extreme left and right winged parties. Around this time‚ the predominant right-winged political ideologies of Nazism and Fascism came to the forefront. In the period between the First and Second World War‚ Hitler’s Nazi Germany and Mussolini’s Fascist Italy provided the ideal alternative to the ineffective parliament democracy. Although considered comparable due to their ideological similarities and the reasons behind their popularity‚ Nazism and Fascism were "closer in theory than in practice" (Macdonald
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The first time I finally felt free was when I took that first step out of the airport and on to the sidewalk of Rome. I smelt all the flavors of Gelato as I walked down the streets and finally when I couldn’t resist any longer I went into a little shop and I bought a small cup of mint chip gelato. I got into a gondola and rode to my new apartment. As I was moving into my new space‚ I met Julia. She was an Italian artist in the apartment across the hallway. Instantly we connected and we became best
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The Muslims of Medieval Italy by Alex Metcalfe Less than two hundred years after the death of the prophet Muhammad the rule of Islam had spread from the Arab Peninsula to Italy after the Roman Empire had crumbled away; eventually it spread all the way to Iberia. The book The Muslims of Medieval Italy by Alex Metcalfe focuses on the Muslim-Christian dynamic and the respective ruling entities by examining the chronological timeline of events and more cultural history of the dynamic in the region.
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