Quais as criticas dos medievalistas apontadas por peter burke à obra de Burckhardt?

Quais os argumentos daqueles que defendem a existência de vários (e não apenas um) renascimento? E em que medida ainda podemos usar o conceito de renascimento sem torná-lo um mito de fundação da modernidade ocidental?

(d) rivers.

explanation:

civilizations developed around rivers because their waters provided places to hunt and fish. also, as the rivers flooded, the lands around them became fertile. this allowed them to support farming. this is especially true of the nile river, which flooded the same time each year.

the romans were initially interested in expansion via sicily (which at that time was a cultural melting pot), part of which lay under carthaginian control. at the start of the first punic war (264-241 bc), carthage was the dominant power of the western mediterranean, with an extensive maritime empire