HISTORY 2HH3 Final: HIST 2HH3 Final Exam Review (Winter 2016)
22 Apr 2016
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Argued diplomacy began with the italians a result of italian conflict within italy. Italian city-states as they formed in the renaissance were constantly in conflict. Became adept and skilled at negotiation as a strategy for solving their problems. Developed protocols and structures that allowed them to devote more time to negotiations (found wars costly) Diplomacy emerged as a necessary strategy out the conflicted state of italy. Argues that the birth of modern diplomacy was the product of italian engagement with the ottomans. Situates it from the time the ottomans took constantinople in 1453. Suddenly europeans have to deal with a present ottoman authority. They are in the mediterranean and they have seized the most important christian city, on the edge of. The mediterranean is an intensely contested space (spanish, portuguese, mamluk turks, ottomans, Because of this intrusion and ramping up of conflict, european powers realized (particularly the. Venetians and the french) that they had to start working with the ottomans.
