City-States
Ruling Families
Medici Family
Patronage
Miscellaneous
100
True/False: Italy was one unified country.
What is false
100

This banking family resented the power of the Medici, and had Cosimo Medici arrested.  

Albizzi

100
How many Pope's came from the Medici family?
What is four
100
Who is a person who gives financial or other support to a person, organization, cause, or activity?
What is a patron
100
What sea is Italy located on?
What is the Mediterranean Sea
200

In what ways did city-states regulated themselves?

What is conducting trade, collecting taxes, and making their own laws

200

What duties were ruling families expected to carry out?

What is funding and executing elaborate service projects

200
Who became the Queen of France in 1547?
What is Catherine de Medici
200

Patronage was used as a ___________ by the Medici Family. 

political strategy 

200
What city was controlled by the Medicis?
What is Florence
300
What was especially important for wealth within the city states?
What is trade
300
Name two types of people that prominent ruling families supported
What is artists, philosophers, and scientists
300
What was the nickname of the Medici Family?
What is Godfathers of the Renaissance
300

True/False: 70% of all Renaissance artists lived and worked in Florence. 

What is true

300

This organization brought scholars from all over the world to Florence to help translate ancient Greek and Rome texts.

What is the General Council 

400
Which city prospered because of the wool industry?
What is Florence
400
What was the most important ruling family in Renaissance Italy?
What is the Medici family
400
Who was the founder of the bank which initiated the family's wealth?
What is Giovanni de Medici
400

Which patronage family was prominent in Milan?

What is the Sforza family

400
What is the nickname for Florence?
What is the city of flowers
500
Which city prospered because of shipbuilding?
What is Venice
500
What kind of control did ruling families exert within their domains?
What is absolute
500

Which scientist did the Medici family primarily support?

What is Galileo 

500

When Cosimo died in 1464, the Florentines declared him ________ 

Pater Patriae, father of the fatherland

500

Reading pagan authors like Socrates and Plato was punishable by... 

excommunication from the church. 

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