The Renaissance began in Italy for a few main reasons. The first being that Italy extended into the Mediterranean sea and was very open to trade, this caused old ideas from older times to come back into Italy. Since the Renaissance was the “rebirth” of Greco-Roman culture, the spread of old ideas would enhance Italy’s abilities to be beginning. The next main reason is that Italy had a lot of influence from the church, the church was very powerful and was able to start almost anything they wanted. The church was also very concentrated and had a very high economic status. Furthermore it was ideal to start in Italy. Finally, a topic that i pointed out before was the Greek and Roman cultures combined was the goal. Italy Greece, and Rome all had
