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AP European History
Unit 1 – Renaissance and Exploration
Topic 1.2
How could history be altered if Petrarch had decided against studying Greek literature during the Italian Renaissance?
The Catholic Church would lose its spiritual dominance in Italy.
European exploration and colonization of Americas would start earlier.
Latin as an academic language would completely disappear from Europe.
Humanism might not develop into a key intellectual movement during that period due to lack of inspiration from classical texts.
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