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 H

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.