How did trade routes influence the renaissance's beginning in italy? traders from constantinople began to sponsor italian artists. merchants from tripoli grew wealthy supplying armies fighting the hundred years' war. italy was isolated from its neighbors, so it began to focus on its own culture. italian traders had contact with the arab world and its culture

Italian traders had contact with the Arab world and its culture is the correct answer.

The trade routes influenced a lot in the beginning of renaissance in Italy. The trade with the Arab world made the Italian cities and people very rich and these people began to patronize the artists and writers which resulted in renaissance. More importantly, the Arabs had preserved the Greek classical literature which reached to Italy through trade routes and thus influenced the renaissance in Italy. Lastly The Arab culture was much more advanced which also influenced the renaissance's beginning in Italy.

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