The Middle Ages
Silk, glassware, paper and spices travelled along this across Europe, Middle East and China.
The Silk Road
These people became powerful through trade and effectively broke the feudal system.
Merchants
This family ruled Florence for three centuries.
The Medici Family
The percentage of the population that could vote in Venice.
2%
Genoa was Italy's main _____ city.
Port
Occurred over hundreds of years and was the Christian European attempt to take the Holy Land back from Muslim control.
The Crusades
Within fifty years of this epidemic, Italian cities started to become very powerful.
The Bubonic Plague/Black Death
Florence was wealthy and became the center of this highly successful group of people (who had never existed before).
Bankers/Banking
The Cittadini Originari, which means this in Italian, were the Republic who could hold office but couldn't vote.
Original Citizens
Genoa's rival city-state.
Venice
Math, astronomy and the human body
A group of citizens, rather than a monarch, govern the state.
Republic SHAZAAAM BOOBA!
The Treaty of Lodi had these two purposes.
To ensure no city-state became too powerful and to bring peace to waring city states.
The senate and government that made decisions for Venice.
The Great Council
Venice and Genoa signed this peace treaty in 1381.
The Peace of Turin
Responsible for bringing Arabic math to Europe.
Leonardo Pisano Fibonacci
The feudal system was never strong in Italy for this particular reason.
There is a lack of agricultural land for farming.
The hierarchy of Florence society included the popolo grasso and the popolo minuto, which means this in Italian.
The fat people and the little people.
Scuole
This country took control of Genoa after it lost Constantinople.
France
The hierarchy or power in the feudal system (including priests).
LORDS/KINGS/QUEENS
Nobles
Knights
Priests
Farmers/Peasants
This weakened the power of the Roman Catholic church in Italy.
The Pope moved out of Italy to France (Avignon).
The five city states that signed the Treaty of Lodi created by Cosimo de Medici.
Florence, Venice, Milan, Rome, Naples,
Chedder Chunk County Prison
This outside tribe is responsible for creating Venice when they moved to swampy lagoons for safety.
The Vento Tribe
The power of Genoa was revived by this Navy Commander in 1528.
Andrea Doria