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A major reason that the Renaissance began in Italy was that...


few European scholars lived in Italy


Italian merchants farmers produced a large amount of food


The cities of Italy had grown wealthy from trade between Europe and Asia

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The cities of Italy had grown wealthy from trade between Europe and Asia.

That wealth funded merchants and banking families (e.g., the Medicis) who became patrons of artists and scholars, supported schools, and created thriving urban centers where classical Roman/Greek texts and ideas were rediscovered and debated — all key conditions for the Renaissance.