Why might the italian city-states have resisted the exploration around the world?
- the discovery of new trade routes to the east threatened the city-state's control over that trade.
- the technological innovations that allowed new discoveries were adding to the wealth of italy's enemies.
- the search for new protestant converts threatened the power of the papal states and rome itself.
- the italian city-states were fearful that new trade routes would raise the influence of islamic empires.