Why did the Renaissance begin in northern Italy?
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That is because the Italian merchants were the richest back then from trades within the Mediterranean Sea. Also it is a central points for other trade routes, due to the Ancient Roman Empire. Since they were the richest, they started thinking about other stuff... like philosophy, art ...
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There is no technical reason, other than consistancy. It was established by the Egyptian astronomer Ptolemy a couple thousand years ago. Probably because the land that was known when the first maps were made were in the North.
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The 100 year war was somewhere around there. It delayed the Northern Renessaince, well that and the Black Death.
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The Middle Ages formed the middle period in a traditional schematic division of European history into three "ages": the classical civilization of Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and Modern Times. The Middle Ages of Western Europe are commonly dated from the end of the Western Roman Empire (5th century) until the rise of national monarchies, the start of European overseas exploration, the humanist revival, and the Protestant Reformation starting in 1517. These various changes all mark the beginning of the Early Modern period that preceded the Industrial Revolution.\n\nThe Middle Ages are commonly referred to as the medieval period or simply medieval (sometimes spelled "mediaeval" or, historically, "mediæval").
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I know a little bit of it.  The Renaissance was a big period of time, so I do not know what information you need.  IM me on one of the following instant messengers:\n\nAIM - pigger186\nYahoo! - knockitoffnow89\nMSN - knockitoffnow89@yahoo.com\n\nOr... email me: knockitoffnow89@yahoo.com
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The alps.Trino began in the 3rd century B.C.The frist taurine tribes blended with the Celtoligurians and the Gallic populations which migrated across the Alps.
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Well the question is purely subjective.  Greece started out as a once important influence when the Italians were still the Etruscans (forerunners to the Romans).  As everyone knows from there the Italians flourished even after the collapse of the empire throughout the middle ages and Renaissance.\nThey generally greatly improved on Greece's endeavours and became the driving force of western civilization for these times while Greece was mired in its past historical importance of crumbing theaters, temples and faux democracy.
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"In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder, bloodshed — they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock."\n\n-From The Third Man
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well i did this, i can remember the renaissance means startign over, you knwo the beginning. so; i can bet that it means the beginning of harlem. go to google and type in beginning of harlem.
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Italy is a country, not a continent.
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Printing started in Germany but soon spread to Italy where the Renaissance was in full swing. In Italy a new form of book became popular... unlike the old fashioned books which were often very large, the new books were quite small - in fact, they were the first pocket-sized books that you take around with you. In order to print very small characters to fit lot sof text in these books, the printing style of small, graceful curved letters almost similar to handwriting was developed and became known as italic.
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There wasn't really such a gap.  People like to say that there was because there was so little exploration and prospertiy during the dark ages, but the truth is that European scholars of the middle ages like Descartes, Copernicus, and St. Augustine (just to name a few) made significant advances in every field of study.  Rennaissance scholarship only continued what they were working on.  Arab scholars who lived during the time of the European dark ages also made significant advances, most notably to mathematics, so if you accept this false idea of some sort of gap in European learning it makes sense to assume that Muslims were the only ones keeping it going.
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the middle ages/medieval taimes/dark ages were not named as such until after the fact. the thinkers of the renaissance (which was very localized) refered to it as that because they were entering a new age of light, as in knowledge. therefore, the time before this must have been "dark" by default. also, it is called the middle ages by the same renaissance thinkers because it was the time period in between the greatness of the antiquities of rome and greece and their current(in the 14th and 15th cent.) quest for knowledge and a reversion to the antiquities and classics. also, in the same vein, the reaissance was not named until after the fact as well.
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As far as I know, the Renaissance had little to do with arms and armoury. I suppose it influenced their designs some, but I should think any webpage on the items you mention from 1300 to 1700, give or take 25 to 50 years at the start and end, would cover what you are looking for. Primarily, you want Italian armour and weapons history from that time range. Include France's.\n\nhttp://www.historicalweapons.com/armourterminology.html\n\nhttp://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/rarm/hd_rarm.htm
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if you are talking about the Italian Renaissance, then it was because of the humanist ideas, which differed greatly from those of the middle ages (or dark ages because of little cultural progress).  the humanists had new ways of thought, such reformation included new behaviorial guidelines, such as the Prince by Machiavelli.
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Can you be more specific?\nDo you want to know more about the origin of the word?\nDo you need some general information on Italian History?\netc.\nThanks!
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The reason for this is the history of mankind for the last 10thousand years.\n\nFarming started in the fertile crescent and branched off from there in an east west direction.  For the same crop to be grown at a different lattitude it had to go north and south, at a substantially slower rate, because the plant would have to adjust to the change in sunlight.\n\nTo go east and west from the fertile crescent to france or to china is didn't have to change that much, the plants.\n\nThere were also animals in europe and asia the could be domesticated, like cows and pigs, the animals in africa are zebras or tigers, and can't be domesticated. Modern attempts in other places besides africa haven't proven successful.\n\nSo the farming only hit egypt originally, and maybe spread to ethiopia, but it didn't last to modern times because of the culture of hunter gather that was dominant throughout africa spread and didn't choose to continue farming.\n\nNow the Europeans came in the 1700s and 1800s with guns and germs, and eliminated some of the population and divided the remaining populations,\nyou've seen hutu and tootisy and know that this has to do with an artifical division.\n\n\nSo theres no agricultural base, which is prerequisite to capitalism, which is prerequisite to a nation having wealth.\n\nInstead the continent seems content on the genocidal whims of whoever has the guns left over by the europeans.\n\nGod has nothing to do with it, and anyone who says so, I really question their intelligence.