Explain the factors that led the revival of Italian cities.
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Explanation:
The Italian city-states were a political phenomenon of small independent states mostly in the central and northern Italian Peninsula between the 9th and the 15th centuries.
After the fall of the Western Roman Empire, urban settlements in Italy generally enjoyed a greater continuity than in the rest of western Europe. Many of these towns were survivors of earlier Etruscan, Umbrian and Roman towns which had existed within the Roman Empire. The republican institutions of Rome had also survived. Some feudal lords existed with a servile labour force and huge tracts of land, but by the 11th century, many cities, including Venice, Milan, Florence, Genoa, Pisa, Lucca, Cremona, Siena, Città di Castello, Perugia, and many others, had become large trading metropoles, able to obtain independence from their formal sovereigns.
Explanation:
There were many factors, but here are some of the most notable:
1 The rise of many, independent city states with new, younger leaders created more liberty and opportunity for people.
2 The re-introduction of the Greek & Roman classics that had been hidden for centuries were very inspiring.
3 The rise of trade with Italy being the hub not only inspired ideas, but also lead to wealth accumulation that could fund invention and the arts. This had been developing for centuries, but trade started flourishing in the decades leading up the the Renaissance.
4 (Later) the Printing press, so the average person could gain access to information that was only before available to the privileged few.
5 The Black Plague had killed ~1/3 of all Europeans, which had positive effects for the survivors later, including increased access to land, which was often monopolized by Feudal lords, while mobility increased, permitting people to go where the opportunity was.
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