The ideology employed in The Prince is highly reflective of the emerging humanism ideology of the Italian Renaissance. In the first few chapters, Machiavelli discusses the difficulty leaders have in maintaining control over recently obtained territories with difference customs than his own. First, Machiavelli states that leaders have a more difficulty preserving a new territory than maintaining a hereditary princedom. He provides two reasons for this: First, the people will willingly trade one recently arrived ruler for another under the expectation of improvement. Secondly, after taking over a domain, the prince would find himself obliged to those who put him in power but cannot fulfill all their expectations. To this issue, Machiavelli proposes
