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Unique Aspects
100
Florence, Venice, Milan, Naples, and The Papal States
What were the five major city states?
100
Peasants
Which people lived in rural areas?
100
False
True or False, the agriculture became better?
100
Christianity
What was the main religion in the Italian City-States?
100
True
True or False, city-states had wars against each other to gain control of the Mediterranean?
200
Republic
What form of government did Florence and Venice have?
200
Nobles
Which group of people owned much of the land?
200
The decreasing importance of Mediterranean trade or The rise of trade outside Europe
Give one reason why trade declined in Italy during the 17th century
200
True
True or False, the people disagreed with the pope?
200
Florence
Which main city-state was dominated by one family for most of the 15th century?
300
By a single aristocratic family
How was Milan governed?
300
Shopkeepers and professionals
what occupations made up middle class?
300
Spain
Which country ruled southern Italy?
300
450,000
About how many people worshipped in the Protestant Church?
300
Shipbuilding
What was the primary industry in Venice?
400
To gain control of the Mediterranean
Why were there wars against the city-states?
400
Marrying noble families
How did merchants protect their wealth?
400
1700-1713
How many years was the War of the Spanish Succession?
400
The city-states were brought together through the catholic church
What effect did religion have on the unity of the Italian city-states?
400
Genoa
Where was the Italian explorer, Christopher Columbus, born?
500
Rome
Who ruled the northern part of Naples?
500
Through industries
How did merchants gain their wealth?
500
Austria
Which country took Naples from Spain, and in what year?
500
Because the church lost its religious base and the church politically divided italy
Why did italians blame the church for their problems?
500
Church
Machiavelli argued that the __?__ was the cause of Italian ills