... this cosmopolitan mix. Venetian society, prior to its expansion, was primarily an homogenous society. With the advent of the Empire, society became cosmopolitan and diverse, more culturally enriched and the economy prospered. ECONOMY - The acquisition of Dalmatia marked the beginning of Venice's expansion and rise to empire. Dalmatia served as a base for operations in the Adriatic and beyond. ... It provided a large number of natural harbours as safe havens for the Venetian fleet, allowing them to create safer trade routes ... to Venice's prestige and wealth. The Empire also gave Veneti...

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... Risorgimento since 1830-1848. The French Revolution of 1830 detonated a train of small insurrections up and down Italy. A young lawyer of Modena, Misley had devised a scheme for the creation of a constitutional kingdom of Central Italy under the Duke Francis of Modena whom he had won over to his ideas. On the other hand, a silk merchant Menotti had visions of national unity based on Rome. When Sebastini, ... the greatest prosperity and the greatest advance in industrialization. Lombardy boasted the finest system of communications in Continental Europe, and it was not Austrian resistance...

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... last Visconti ruler in 1447. Both of these rulers, Visconti and Sforza, worked to create a highly centralized territorial state. They were tremendously successful in creating a system of taxation that generated a tremendous amount of revenue for the government. The republic of Venice remained a stable oligarchy ruled by a small group of merchant-aristocrats. The republic of Florence dominated the region of Tuscany. At the start of the fifteenth century, Florence was governed ... by a small merchant oligarchy that influenced the apparent republican government. It wasn't until 1434 that ....

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... Empire carried on, the Western Empire collapsed. Before its division and collapse, the Roman Empire had a very complicated trading network with the peoples of Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. This meant that the Romans had an economy that had access to many resources. In addition to ... why Italian merchants traded so much were because they had a large trade-ship fleet, money, and because of a merchant/explorer named Marco Polo. Marco Polo was born in Venice, Italy into a merchant family. In 1271, Marco set out with his father and uncle on a journey, along the Silk Road ... which was...

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... Communication was a major obstacle but Italian humanists also faced very strong opposition from scholars and teachers from other European Universities such as the University of Vienna, the University of Cologne, and the University of Paris. They didn't like the scholarship that humanists taught especially the rhetoric and poetry which Overfield comments they thought they were "studies in vanity ... into France, Germany, and the Iberian Peninsula. And finally over into England, where the fascination for Italian culture can be shown in several of William Shakespeare's plays set in Renaiss...

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