Silk Road
This person travelled the silk road with his father and uncle.
Who is Marco Polo?
Italian Renaissance city that was owned by Cosimo de Medici and created wealth through banking and textile trade.
What is Florence?
Italian Ren. artists who painted the Mona Lisa/Last Supper and created many unique inventions.
Who was Leonardo da Vinci?
This person has a swimming pool game named after him.
Who is Marco Polo?
This word means "rebirth".
What is Renaissance?
Most people traveling on the Silk Road were these kind of people.
Who are traders?
This Italian Ren. city is known as the "fashion" capital of the world and was a center of great trade of silk and weapons.
What is Milan?
This famous artists painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.
Who was Michelangelo?
Leonardo da Vinci painted many very famous portraits, this was his most famous.
What is the Mona Lisa?
After Marco Polo came back from his travels on the Silk Road, how did people learn of his adventures?
What is they read a book about him?
This Italian Ren. city is built on many canals and was a great trade city of glass.
What is Venice?
This famous Italian Ren. writer wrote a book called The Prince and was quoted "better to be feared than loved."
Who was Niccolo Machiavelli?
Michelangelo painted this ceiling for the pope during the renaissance.
What is the Sistine Chapel?
The silk road was a trade route between these two continents.
What is Asia and Europe?
This city was a trade city and it was on the western side of Italy.
What is Genoa?
This Italian writer wrote poems in Italian for the common people.
Who was Dante Alighieri?
Niccolo Machiavelli wrote this book during the renaissance.
What is The Prince?
This Mongolian leader protected the checkpoints of the Silk Road.
Who was Kublai Khan?
This city was the center of the Catholic church which is also called the papal state.
What is Rome?
This person of the Italian Renaissance wanted Florence to be the most beautiful city in the world.
Who was Cosimo de Medici?
Leonardo da Vinci created this invention with great detail to the human body after studying the flight of birds.
What was the "flying machine?"
This was the belief that humans could control their actions. During the middle ages people thought everything happened because of God.
What is Humanism?