Renaissance+(c.+1450-1600)+POLITICAL

Renaissance (c. 1450-1600) POLITICAL __** Political Leadership: **__ -Usually wealthy families ruled -These leaders included Kings, Queens, Dukes, Counts, and other wealthy nobles -Leaders owned slaves of any race. These slaves were treated like family and their slave owners sometimes had portraits made of them -The basis of politics during the Renaissance comes from Italy

==== Capitlism is an economic activity that involves using large sums of money in large-scale commercial, manufacturing, or agricultural activities. It had some medieval roots, but did not truly develop develop until around 1500. ====

The French utilized a system called the "Ancien Regime", or "Old rule'. It was a dynastic and aristocratic system that passed several legislative acts such as the Ordinance of Villers-Cotterets. The Ancien Regime was the dominant administrative structure in France until the French Revolution. Despite the beginnings of rapid demographic and economic recovery after the [|Black Death] of the 14th century, the gains of the previous half-century were to be jeopardised by a further protracted series of conflicts, the [|Italian Wars] (1494–1559),

where French efforts to gain dominance ended in the increased power of the [|Habsburg] Holy Roman Emperors of Germany.

Church in Milan, church leaders ruled.

 Henry IV's son Louis XIII and his minister (1624–1642) Cardinal Richelieu, elaborated a policy against Spain and the German emperor during the Thirty Years' War (1618–1648) which had broken out among the lands of Germany's Holy Roman Empire. An English-backed Huguenot rebellion (1625–1628) defeated, France intervened directly (1635) in the wider European conflict following her ally (Protestant) Sweden 's failure to build upon initial success. In the 16th century the parish became the basis of local government. The leading figure was an appointed magistrate called the Justice of the Peace.In the 16th century the power of the monarchy increased. During the Middle Ages the barons held castles, which were very difficult to capture so it was easy for them to rebel. Cannons changed all that. (Guns were invented in the 14th century and they gradually became more efficient).Henry VII also strengthened government by creating the Court of Star Chamber (so called because it met in a room with stars painted on the ceiling). The court dealt with 'unlawful maintenance, giving of licences, signs and tokens, great riots, unlawful assemblies'. The Court of Star Chamber was abolished in 1641. The 17th century was dominated by the struggle between king and parliament. The question was: 'Who was the ultimate authority in the land?'.King James I (1603-1625) believed in the divine right of kings. Firenze italia (florence italy) medici and other wealthy familys (mobs/mafia) rule