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The Kingdom of Italy is a civilization in Empire Earth. It is available from the Middle Ages to the Industrial Age. Manual description[]The disintegration of the Roman Empire left the lands of Italy divided until the 19th Century. Numerous powers – including the Ostrogoths, Byzantines, Lombards, and Franks – controlled parts of the peninsula at one time or another. After Charlemagne’s Frankish empire dissolved, German leaders under the guise of Holy Roman Emperors controlled northern Italy until the 14th Century. Thereafter, a plethora of independent states and kingdoms existed in northern Italy. Medieval Italy, despite its fragmentation, was generally a thriving cultural and economic region. City-states such as Venice, Pisa, and Genoa (and later Milan and Florence) flourished. These mercantile states had strong navies, wealth, and trading posts and colonies around the Mediterranean. Additionally, the papacy in Rome – though not immune to shifts in political power in Italy – continued to provide a strong Christian influence in Western Europe. During the 12th and 13th Centuries, an intellectual renaissance of sorts began among Catholic monks such as Anselm and Thomas Aquinas. By the 14th Century, the vitality, diversity, and prosperity of Italy – especially in the north – was bringing about the full Italian Renaissance. |
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Kingdom of Italy
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