Literature
Art
Trade and Travel
Inventions
Vocabulary
100
The everyday language people spoke in a region
What is vernacular?
100
An art method that showed people and things as they appear at different distances.
What is perspective?
100
The merchant who left his home in Venice, and traveled to China.
What is Marco Polo?
100
An invention invented by Johannes Gutenburg using movable type.
What is the printing press?
100
The art of making agreements with other countries.
What is diplomacy?
200
The three vernacular languages
What is Italian, French, and German?
200
An artist born in Florence and is known for painting the "Mona Lisa", a portrait of a young noblewoman.
What is Leonardo da Vinci?
200
The Italian merchants bought these items and sold them in the middle east.
What is wool, wine, and glass?
200
The first European printed book by Gutenburg.
What is the Christian Bible?
200
A new way of understanding the world.
What is humanism?
300
In the early 1300s, a poet from Florence who wrote "The Divine Comedy".
What is Dante Alighieri?
300
A Renaissance artist who painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel with scenes from the Bible.
What is Michelangelo?
300
The two important events that helped the Italians succeed in trade.
What is the Crusades and the Mongol conquests?
300
The three reasons the printing press helped Europeans.
What is made many more books available to people, the process of publishing books was faster, and ideas spread more quickly?
300
A full-time soldier who fights in an army for money.
What is mercenary?
400
The English writer who wrote popular vernacular literature including his most famous work, "The Canterbury".
What is Geoffrey Chaucer?
400
An artist who painted many frescoes for the Vatican for the pope.
What is Raphael?
400
Marco Polo's goal when he left Venice to travel to China.
What is to meet Kublai Khan?
400
Da Vinci drew a picture of this which he was credited for with having the first idea for a vehicle that could fly vertically.
What is the helicopter?
400
Related to worldly things.
What is secular?
500
A writer who used Italian to write sonnets, or short poems, which expressed his love for a woman who died in the Black Death.
What is Petrarch?
500
The most celebrated female artist, and was one of the first women to paint major historical and religious scenes.
What is Artemisia Gentileschi?
500
The two leading major trade Renaissance cities.
What is Florence and Venice?
500
Da Vinci learned more about the human body by doing what.
What is cutting open dead bodies?
500
A renewal or rebirth of interest in Greek and Roman arts.
What is Renaissance?
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