Revised Term Paper Topic and Thesis

My new topic is the Medici family from Cosimo to Lorenzo, and why they were so prominent and were able to found such a prosperous bank.

Thesis:

Even though adversaries worked against them, the Medici had a prominent rule in Florence beginning with Cosimo and ending with Lorenzo during the Italian Renaissance because the they were not arrogant and they did not take their position for granted as they founded and maintained Europe's most prosperous bank; however, when subsequent Medici rulers did in fact start to stray from the usual fairness and started reaching too far into the pockets of the people and the church, the powerful bank collapsed -- along with the Medici rule.