AP European History 1.2 Period 1: 1450-1648

skimming it again You've only read it's like four million

times Okay here's our question where would someone who embraced

this philosophy most likely have lived during the renaissance in

your pencil And already at least for a long long

time ago in a galaxy not too faraway machiavelli decided

that it was way too risky to rely on one's

own subjects to decide if they love you or not

and since he wasn't much of a risk taker he

figured it was easier to simply make them fear you

instead which is an interesting idea but we have a

feeling that it didn't translate too well to his love

of life But where would this interesting idea likely have

originated from during the renaissance period We'll probably wouldn't be

france because in the early fourteenth century stages of the

renaissance france was all about christian humanism which had elements

Of the sort of civic humanism that machiavelli employed but

with a far more well you know jesus eat till

it wasn't until a couple centuries later france dropped the

christian and started speaking more about humanism alone Christian humanism

was big in spain as well where the idea was

great christian unity based on individual choice and seeing his

portugal was barely touched by humanism at the time and

also tended to mimic spain We can rule it out

as well Mon fortune will find your own style well

that leaves us with more less obvious answer of a

italy When you think of the renaissance and when you

hear a name is italian is machiavelli you think of

italy at least we hope you do Machiavelli believed that

a successful republic required widespread civic participation and since italy

was known as the heartland of civic humanism which champion

that very idea it's pretty quick pick out a is

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