By Paul Horton. While the Renaissance has been presented as a European phenomenon, historians have recently begun to recognize the ways that other parts of the world participated in the intellectual and artistic achievements of those times. How can we challenge students to investigate what was happening beyond Europe? John Hale’s, Civilization of Europe in the Renaissance (1993) emphasizes the extent to which the cultural flowering of Italy and then Europe from 1400 to 1650 was predicated on the wealth generated by Mediterranean trade established during the Crusades that continued to yield profits for Italian merchants for hundreds of years. It was …
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