City-States
Which of the 3 out of the 5 city-states is the most important in Renaissance Italy?
What is Venice, Milan, and Florence
What is the Silk Road?
What is a series of trade routes connecting Asia to Europe via Italy. It spread ideas, disease, travellers, and goods.
What was worth then its weight in gold?
What is Pepper.
What happend to the price of goods, Increase or decrease?
What is Increase.
What was olives uesd for (cooking)?
what is Olive oil.
What is the richest city state?
What is Venice.
What disease traveled through the silk road that killed millions?
What is the Black death or the Bubonic Plaque.
what 2 religous groups fought over holy land?
What is Christians and muslums
Nobles, bankers, wealthy merchants, small merchants, shopkeepers, and craftspeople all wanted what?
What is political power
What was a popular drink across europe?
What is Wine made by fermenting grapes.
What are the 5 most important City-States?
What is Venice, Rome, Milan, Florence, Genoa
more than trade goods were passed along these routes as contact between different cultures led to the exchange of ____ and _______.
What is Ideas and Knowledge.
what century did the biggest and most important crusades take place?
What is 11th century to 13th century.
Why did merchants purchase goods in one place and sell them in another?
They sold luxury goods for a higher price in places without those goods making them more money.
Long growing seasons pruduced crops like ___ and ___ which were important trade items?
What is Olives and Grapes
To encourage international trade began to allow charging _____.
What is Interest.
Which two bodies of water are most involved in the Silk Road?
What is Mediterranean and the Pacific ocean.
The Holy Land was, and still is, a place of great importance for the three major monotheistic religions: _____, _____, and _____.
What is Islam, Judaism, and Christianity.
How did they transport goods and resources over land?
What is by horse, mule or ox.
Why wasn't trade and travel interupted by weather in the winter?
What is Italy had a mild climate.
Name the map?
A Milan, B Venice, C genoa, D Florence,E rome
What increased the trade between Europe and the east?
What is Oil, Spices, and new varieties of fruit.
What did bankers and merchants of the city-states bring to their cities?
What is They brought wealth
Why was geography important for the succsses of the City-States?
What is They had a massive cost advantage in transporting luxury goods by sea.