1. Agenda Weekly Reflection Machiavelli’s The Prince How to Rule the World

2. Florentine Politics

3. City-States Ruled by a governing board Controlled by rich families Florence: Medicis Built palaces Strong military Controlled culture by supporting artists, writers, musicians

4. Machiavelli’s The Prince

5. Niccolo Machiavelli Advised rulers to do what works best, not by being good or moral Counter to humanism? Cold realism Separates government from religion Showed how the world really works

6. “A prince should have no other aim or thought, nor take up any other thing for his study, but war and its organization and discipline, for that is the only art that is necessary to one who commands.”

7. “Thus, it is well to seem merciful, faithful, humane, sincere, religious, and also to be so; but you must have the mind so disposed that when it is merciful to be otherwise you may be able to change to the opposite qualities.”

8. “In the actions of men, and especially of princes, from which there is no appeal, the end justifies the means.”

9. Is it better to be feared or loved?

10. How to Rule the World Pick your own project “How To” guide of being a successful ruler 10 points