Why did the Renaissance start in Italy?? In the space below explain all the reasons that the Renaissance got kick-started in Itlay and Southern Europe.
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Zoey Rice
10/24/2019 11:44:21 am
The Renaissance started in Italy due to it being the center of the crusades. As we’ve already learned, Italy was were the crusaders would take off by ship to go down to the Holy Land which led to the growth of trade. The spread of new ideas and creations through trade is what led to the Italian Renaissance. Also, since Italy was the main place for trade, their renaissance occurred before the Northern Renaissance.
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Hunter Heslin
10/24/2019 11:45:29 am
The Renaissance started in Italy because of trade, local history, and the Crusades. The Crusades brought in trade, trade brought in new ideas, and Roman architecture inspired humanists to create great things.
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juliana t.
10/24/2019 11:45:58 am
The renaissance started in italy after all of the crusades and trade began. After trade started, new ideas started to spread and since the most trade came to and from italy, the italians grew much faster than everyone else. After the people were able to read the bible for themselves and figure out that the church was doing things different than what the bible said, the church began to lose power. The people actually started thinking for themselves instead of relying on religion to give them all of the answers.
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Megan Lindquist
10/24/2019 11:47:16 am
The renaissance started in Italy because of the growth of new ideas and enlightenment to a new things such as art. Many people stepped away from the religion-based aspect of things. With enlightenment, it allowed people to discover and interpret new ideas. The Italians were heavily influenced by the Greeks in terms of different forms of architecture. Other European countries saw these new ideas forming and were inspired to create some of their own. These ideas spread throughout Europe and influenced the growth of new ideas.
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Alissa Everman
10/24/2019 11:47:50 am
The Renaissance started in Italy due to the fact that Italy transported the crusaders to and from the middle east which allowed them to trade new items and ideas that would ultimately help them out of the Dark Ages. These new ideas “brought the light back to Italy” through advances in education, more detailed art, meaningful literature, history and much more. Because Italy was the first to receive these new ideas and trade items and began to grow first, the Renaissance is believed to have started in Italy then moved its way up to northern Europe.
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Kaylee Loomer
10/24/2019 11:48:06 am
It started in Italy mainly because of trading from the crusades. Italians would gather information from people that they traded with. Their ideas mainly rooted from the Greeks and the Romans. Coliseums, aqueducts, and other things made them curious, which lead to the development of new ideas. The spread of classical works and knowledge from the Greeks and Roman kicked off the Renaissance. These ideas were known as humanist ideas. People who followed these ideas were humanists, and these ideas were very secular. They stopped living by the church's way but by their own way, which had allowed for more freedom.
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Aiden Barbour
10/24/2019 11:48:12 am
The Renaissance started in Italy because in Italy the Italian city states led to the trading which started spreading ideas. Also there was a big uprising in Italian artists which spread art and made art a big deal with Renaissance. Also in Italy they were starting to think more and learn about aqueducts and coliseums.
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Courtney Woodhall
10/24/2019 11:48:29 am
The Renaissance started in Italy because Italy is surrounded by water, and therefore, was the region that sent soldiers to the Crusades in the Middle East. During the Crusades the soldiers traded ideas with the Middle Easterners and came back with these new items and concepts. The Crusaders traded these things with Italians and other Southern Europeans. These new ideas allowed people in Italy and Southern Europe to be inspired and think of their own new ideas and become more enlightened. Thus resulting in the kick-start of the Renaissance and the spread of new ideas throughout Europe starting with Italy and Southern Europe.
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Max Sannes
10/24/2019 11:48:54 am
The Renaissance started in Italy because the goods they gained from the crusades were brought right to Italy. Because Italy had many ports that were easy to access, the ships sailed in and out of Italy, causing Italy to be immediately impacted by the Crusades. These new ideas and goods became very prevalent in Italy, and others wanted what they had, so trade boomed. With the increase of new ideas and trade, Italy was reborn, or entered the time of the Renaissance.
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Ryder Natzic
10/24/2019 11:49:03 am
The Renaissance started in Italy because of all the different things happening there and in Southern Europe, like different cultures mixing though trade ports. The trade ports made it easy for different cultures to mix and trade ideas because people from all over would come into those ports on Crusade to then get to the Holy Land. They also started to use ideas from the Greeks and Romans, and use reason to figure new things out instead of just turning to God for something they couldn’t figure out.
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Sammy Volpicelli
10/24/2019 11:50:17 am
The European Renaissance started in Italy for many reasons. First, the exponential increase of trade during the crusades, this led to the expansion of ideas and concepts that Italians did not know about already. Second, many christians started to question the church’s ways and rules. Third, many humanists started inventing and creating new world ideas gave fame and money. Lastly, Italians were in the heart of where the roman empire lived. This led to the inspiration from past roman creations and leaders. Due to many Greek and Roman creations were so advanced and much more so than their technology, they realized that by analyzing and attempting to recreate the Roman’s stuff they will learn more about life which they never would figure out.
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Lexie Shaw
10/24/2019 11:50:53 am
The renaissance started in Italy because of the crusades, they were sending off boats and crusaders, which lead to trade. Trading brought new ideas, which helped the renaissance start. The renaissance means rebirth, so bringing new ideas help it start in Italy. People were also curious about stuff and questioning things. They wanted to gain more knowledge then their older generations because they wanted to be better than them. This made them focus on all of them on teachings and culture of the Romans and Greeks.
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shayne buchanan
10/24/2019 11:51:02 am
The reason why Italy is where at today because of trade.Trade was huge in Italy because, it was between Britain and the middle east so it was the center of trade that way. Anther thing for trade was due to the crusades. The sailors dropped of the soldiers and returned back with valuables from the middle east. Anther reason for the being where they are at today is because they were the first Europeans to get out of the darkness and started to get smart.
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Zack Thompson
10/24/2019 11:51:12 am
The reasons that the Italian Renaissance happened, was because people started to wonder about the things around them such as the Colosseum and the aqueducts. The crusades and trade, also brought ideas from other countries around them, in which they were much more advanced. People started to travel further and learn more about the things around them, and about more complex structures, medicine, and other stuff. They learned to read the bible, and began to question it. Scholars started to emerge and make ideas about the world. People started to question the teachings of the bible, and that conflicted religion and self knowing knowledge. People started to use logic to understand the world around them, instead of just following the teachings of the bible, which were a bit unfair and seemed false. Now that they have started to learn and not blindly believe in the bible, they were no longer bound by the limited knowledge and bible teachings of the dark ages, and this lead to the renaissance.
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Sophia
10/24/2019 11:51:39 am
The Renaissance started in Italy because that was where trade from Asia entered Europe. The Italians brought Crusaders over to the Crusades and brought back trade. Some of the things they traded were new ideas and knowledge. Another reason the renaissance started in Italy was because of their local history. The Romans who lived in Italy prior to the dark ages were extremely smart and had left behind things the Italians no longer knew how to make. This inspired them to relearn their past knowledge and combine them with knew ideas brought by the Crusades. All of these elements combined to allow the Renaissance to start in Italy.
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scott higgins
10/24/2019 11:52:20 am
Italy was a large trading hub where a lot of new ideas came from the middle east to “enlighten” europe. Some of these new ideas that came to italy made the intalin people think and learn. The more they learned the more they questioned. This ended up in the people questioning everything including the church. All of this snowballed into southern europe learning and improving very quickly.
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Hanah Betley
10/24/2019 11:57:57 am
The Renaissance started in Italy because it was the center of trade. By the trading from the Crusades it brought new knowledge from the Byzantine Empire. Trade with Africa and Asia influenced sciences and medicine. All of these different influences caused Italy to be a lot more knowledgeable than it's surrounding places, which is why the Renaissance started in Italy.
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Laurel Stamer
10/24/2019 12:28:35 pm
The Renaissance started in Italy because many places grew wealthy from trade and banking systems. People started thinking for themselves and coming up with ideas. Another thing that happened was people saw how their ancestors had made many creations and they wanted to be as intelligent and creative as their ancestors. People started to reform creations of the Romans and Greeks. People were getting more creative and thinking outside the box. They wanted to be wealthy and were inspired by their ancestors. They were learning more from all the trading and travelling as well. They also started to care about education and learning.
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Mark Karnopp
11/14/2019 12:36:29 pm
The reason why Italy got to its point of such a high degree of wealth, power, and change was because of how it was able to be such a huge trade center for Europe. Ever since the crusades Italy was realized to be so helpful and huge for trading, traveling therefore gaining the massive wealth. The Renaissance then started and Italy's wealth and fortune took power and began to start giving these renaissance thinkers chance to divert and create "light" for Europe at the time to help them branch out and make meaningful and very impactful art, architecture, and the list goes on. This was Europe's time for them to get out of the gutter and change and become all around better as a society. All thanks to Italy and the power that was held within it.
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