Which best explains why the Renaissance began in Italy?
Trade and conflict brought Byzantine and Muslim ideas to wealthy Italian city-
states.
Only Italian merchants were allowed access to China, where they discovered
new ideas.
Italian artists were the first to break with the traditions of Greece and Rome.
Italy was a unified and powerful country, where new ideas could take hold free
of outside influence.

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explanation

the given equation is

we can rewrite this as:

let

then the equation becomes:

the factors of 8 that sum up to -9 are {-1,-8}

we split the middle term with these factors to obtain,

we factor by grouping to obtain:

apply the zero product property to get:

but

answer: andrew johnson

17th u.s. president

in what way were president abraham lincoln's and president andrew johnson's reconstruction plans similar? a)both reserved seats in the congress for former confederate war leaders. b)both granted voting rights to the newly freed slaves. d) both required southerners to support the thirteenth amendment to abolish

explanation:

the answer i chose to believe is 'harmony'