Black Death
Initial Trade
Wealthy Families
A New Era
Artists
100
This didn’t damage farmland, buildings, ships, machines, or gold.
What is the Black Death?
100
Caravan trade route from China to the Mediterranean Sea
What is the Silk Road?
100
Wealthy northern Italian city, famous for wool trade and banking
What is Florence?
100
Means “rebirth” and refers to the period that followed Europe’s Middle Ages
What is the Renaissance?
100
Great master that painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican
Who is Michelangelo?
200
This rose as workers, now in short supply, demanded higher pay.
What are wages?
200
Trader from Venice who traveled from Europe to China
Who is Marco Polo?
200
Family of bankers in Florence
What is Medici?
200
A way of thinking and learning that stresses the importance of human abilities and actions
What is humanism?
200
Writer, politician, and poet, first to write in Italian, the language of the people
Who is Dante Alighieri?
300
As more goods became available, this went down.
What are prices?
300
This civilization made the Silk Road safer and easier to travel.
Who are the Mongols?
300
Four major Italian city-states
What is Venice, Genoa, Milan and Florence?
300
Was the center of life during the Middle Ages
Who is God?
300
Italian writer of The Prince, believed rulers sometimes had to be ruthless to keep order
Who is Niccolo Machiavelli?
400
This increased, and new products appeared in the markets.
What is trade?
400
The Mongol ruler who stabalized the Silk Road and entertained Marco Polo
Who is Kublai Khan?
400
This was run by the wealthiest families of each city -state
What is the government?
400
The classical times that the Renaissance looked back to
What is Greek and Roman?
400
This man was not only the painter of Mona Lisa, he was also a great inventor.
Who is Leonardo da Vinci?
500
This trade route actually was a cause for the Black Death, but also caused economies to grow in Europe.
What is the Silk Road?
500
The Europeans who benifitted the most with the trade with Asia
Who are Italian merchants?
500
This was ruled by the head of the wealthiest families.
What is the city state?
500
Appreciation also developed for the importance of people as this
What are individuals?
500
The artistic methos that showed distance and the appearance of three dimensions
What is perspective?
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