What Was One Reason the Italian Peninsula Became Increasingly Vulnerable

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Multiple Choice

What was one reason the Italian peninsula became increasingly vulnerable to foreign powers in the mid-fifteenth century?

• A)Natural disasters weakened the native rulers.
• B)The city-states were divided by economic interests and had a long tradition of quarreling among themselves.
• C)The Church failed to defend the peninsula as promised.
• D)The Church failed to create a successful treaty with the Ottoman Turks.
• E)City-state leaders held the belief that foreign rulers would unite the peninsula.

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