GOLDEN AGES

So what was the key to the creative outbursts in these cities?
first of all, Athens, Florence and London had a commercial revolution thanks to the commerce and the trade. Merchants and bankers had much money so they were able to pay architects, painters and sculptors to build cathedrals, theaters, monuments...
The reasons because painters, writters, sculptors, etc decided to go to each city are these:
-Athens was the greatest trading center in the Mediterranean.
-But in Florence there was a good and favorable climate and there was social mobility were people of all social statements could find their oportunity.
-In London there was an insatiable demand of new plays

GOLDEN AGES

So what was the key to the creative outburst in these 3 cities? First of all, they all had an economic revolution because of growth, the trade and the industry. They all had in common that they were interested in art and culture like literature and philosophy . They also had very interested builds and scultures and they were very rich cities with a good location.

They were very similar but they had also some differences,for example:

In some places like athens or london they had an aristocrathy society, but in others like florence, it was a social mobility, because it had a lot of money.

Not all the cities had the same arts specialities, for example, in Athens they were very good at philosophy(such as Plato or Socrates), literacy(like Sophocles or Euripides) and medicine, with Hippocrates. In Florence they were good at painters or sculptors, like Leonardo Da Vinci.And in England there were very good poets like Shakespeare.

GOLDEN AGES

So what was the key to the creative outbursts in these three cities?

First of all, Athens, Florence and London were the most important cities because they had a good commerce and industries .

They had important people like painters in Florence, philosophers in Athens and playwrights. They also had new oportunities and ideas for poor people and social mobility because of the economic revolutions.

In these three important cities there were rich people who spent money on culture, painting and literature.

And finally, the people of these three cities thought that culture and religion were very important and spent lots of money and time in that things.

GOLDEN AGES

So what was the key to the creative outburst in these three cities?
First of all, Florence, Athens and London, were very rich and important cities.
In this cities there were very importants celebrities and playwrights like Sophocles, Aeschylus and Euripides; because in this cities they were a lot of money and a lot of commerce.

These cities were more important than the others because of their central positions and they were the richest cities.They had big bussines because economic and commercial revolution took place there.

Golden Ages

So what was the key to the creative outbursts in these three cities? First of all, the three golden ages were created by an economic revolution that took place in these cities, that where rich, caused by an economic growth of these places. It was caused because of the trading, the industry and the new ways of commerce. Some important reasons/causes for these golden ages are the culture, the literature, the economy and the philosophy. We're talking about three golden ages: In London, in Florence and in Athens. The first one(London) was based on creativity and on all forms of literature(Shakespeare). The second one(Florence) was based on the art and scultures(Da Vinci, Donatello...) and the third one(Athens) was based on the philosophy and on literature(Herodotus, Sophocles...). This one was very important for the democracy.

By Cristina, Enzo and Jaime.