A Contributing Economic Factor in the Decline of Renaissance Italy

question 20

Multiple Choice

A contributing economic factor in the decline of Renaissance Italy was the:

• A) trial of Galileo.
• B) High Renaissance censorship of Pope Paul IV.
• C) Spanish payments of gold and silver to the people of Milan.
• D) gradual shift of trade routes from the Mediterranean to the Atlantic.
• E) destruction of Rome in 1529.

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