The People
Vocabulary
Geography
Architecture and Art
The States of Italy
100
He painted the Mona Lisa.
Who is Leonardo Da Vinci?
100
A renewal or rebirth of interest in Greek and Roman arts.
What is the Renaissance?
100
In what territory is Rome located in.
What is Papal States?
100
The cathedral that had a dome, measuring at 140 feet, and large round windows at the base called the drum, which allowed light inside.
What is the Florence Cathedral.
100
The Gonzaga family ruled the Italian city-state of Mantua during this period of time.
What is the 1400's?
200
The man that created the first ever printing press.
Who is Johannes Gutenberg?
200
Writings that relate to worldly things.
What are secular writings?
200
A city known as "A City of Canals."
What is Venice?
200
Small rivers that were cut into Venice that allowed boats to allow travel.
What are canals?
200
Due to the Italian's wealth, bankers and merchants loaned money to the kings of this continent.
What is Europe?
300
He wrote one of the world's greatest poem's, "The Divide Comedy."
Who is Dante Alighieri.
300
Having to do with a town or city
What is urban?
300
Where did Marco Polo travel during the 1270's.
What is China.
300
The man who painted the ceilings of the Sistine Chapel.
Who is Michelangelo?
300
How the Italian states gained their wealth.
What is trade?
400
He had enough power to rule all of Florence by himself, however he decided to govern the representatives of his city-state.
Who is Lorenzo de'Medici?
400
A soldier that fights for money rather than loyalty to a country.
What is a mercenary?
400
The first major city of the Renaissance.
What is Florence.
400
Often considered the first architect of the renaissance, he was the architect famous for building the Florence Cathedral.
Who is Filippo Brunelleschi?
400
This group protected the Silk Road which made it easier and cheaper to carry goods from China to Italy.
Who are the Mongols?
500
The writer of "The Prince."
Who is Niccolo Machiavelli.
500
The practice of conducting negotiations between countries.
What is a diplomacy?
500
The mountain that stretches from the Papal States to the Two Sicilies.
What is the Apennines.
500
The important part of the Florence cathedral that became the symbol of Florence.
What is the dome.
500
The five most important cities during the Italian Renaissance.
What are Florence, Mulan, Venice, Rome, and Genoa?
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