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Italy's several important cities that included a class of merchants & bankers that were becoming welthy and powerful. Also the artists were influenced by the ruined buidings and other reminders of classical Rome
The Rebaiaance originally began in Florence, Italy. Merchants and bankers (the Medici family) took control of papal banking; thus, began to dominate European banking on both sides of the Alps. These profit contributes to the city's economy vitality.
The fourth crusade was launched by the pope. It proved to be really disastrous. The crusaders stole valuable pieces of art, burned libraries so they can pay off their debt to Venice bankers.
There were three classes in Rome. The patricians were an aristocracy and owners of large landed estates. The Equites (equestrians, cavalrymen) were an entrepreneurial group: bankers, moneylenders, merchants and investors in shipping and mining. The plebeians were the poor.
Constantinople was the first destination, but the first real engagement in the first Crusade was Antioch.