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-> Compare and contrast the following empires in political, economic, and cultural features
that make them up.
1 st^ Option Empire of Alexander the Great (4th^ century BCE) Political Economic Cultural Overseas empire of Spain (early 16th^ century CE) Political Economic Cultural Comparison of the two: 2 nd^ Option Athens in Golden Age (4th^ and 5th^ century BCE) Political Economic Cultural Florence during Renaissance (15th^ and 16th^ century CE) Political
City-states free to expand on their own (Milan, Florence, Venice, Papal States, Naples); political centralization with large cities becoming the bankers for Europe through increasing power through trade; could have been ruled with imperial or papal powers but conflicting forces weakened one another and the merchant powers took their places on top instead; political turmoil pushed for an improved art of diplomacy Economic Economy was shrinking with warring France; Latin was the language of the land at the time; new weapons and gold industry; slave trade; mercantilism began and Italians started to master business skills like bookkeeping and developing monarchies Cultural New secular and scientific values though strong Christian character within it; growing national conscientiousness; Italy always had cultural strength because it was a gateway to Europe from a lot of places; intense social strife; Florence had huge amounts of social division and anarchy (groups were the old rich, newly rich social class, the middling burgher ranks of skilled workers, and the little people at the bottom of society) which meant conflict all the time and the Black Death cut the city population in half and banking industries failed, causing chaos; educational centers with concentrations in philosophy; serious art and time of Leo da Vinci Comparison of the two:
