The essential question of this activity is, how did wealth in Flournce lead to new art and ideas during the Renaissance?  Our class did many activities to find the answer to this question.  We read and analyzed articles that included information about the Medici Family.  This family was very rich because they had a bank and was involved with Pope.  Cosomo de'Medici was considered the "ruler" of Flourence.  He controlled the city and provided people with loans.  He was a patronage towards Filippo Brunelleschi while he created the dome.  Some articles also talked about why Machiavelli wrote The Prince.  The answer to this is question is because he needed people to know how to be a proper ruler.  This writing was basically a guide line to being a good ruler.  We also played a game that showed us what would happen to a person in different senarios.  This helped us understand what life was like being a painter.  We also defined vocabulary words such as patronage, which is a person who supports someone, or something, by giving money to them.  All of these activities helped us find the answer to the given question.

        It is very important for a prince to spend all of his time studying the art of war.  This is because the Prince's duties are to only focus on the art.  If they do not then society will fall apart.  A prince must be fully focused on his duties in order for the society to run smoothly.  A prince could gain a higher rank by knowing the art so well.  If he were to become lazy about understanding the art his rank could become less important.  He would have to fend for himself if his rank were to become lower.  These consequences are dangerous which is why a Prince's full attention has to be on the art of war.

         I do agree with Machiavelli.  When a person is given specific duties to follw, those should be his only priorities.  In order for the task to be completed, the persons full attention must be dedicated towards it.  This way the commitment will be completed correctly.  If one were to slack off, th results of the task would not be the best that they could have been.  Leaders do not use this philosophy today.  I think this because there never seems to be a person who is only comited to a certain responsibility.  They may be very dedicated but they still focus on different subjects ewhen they should be focusing on the most important one.  For example, The president doesn't have just one task to complete.  He has multiple which means that he can't dedicate all his time to just one.  Yes, it isn't possible to do that but so problems should be enforced more than others,which is not happening.  The world would be more organized if certain people focused on one thing at a time and made that thing the best that it could be.