Trade with Asia
Where did Marco Polo travel?
He traveled to Asia
What 2 things did they make in Milan?
Weapons and silk
The humanities led to a new way of thinking and learning known as?
Humanism
Who was one of the greatest Italian artists?
Michelangelo
The first printed book was a Bible printed in what language?
Latin
How many trade routes did Marco Polo take during 1771-1779?
He took 3 trade routes.
What is Interest?
It is a fee that borrowers pay for the use of someone else's money
What did artist do in order to make their statues look older?
They buried them
The human body/Anatomy
The resulting combination of humanist and religious ideas is called?
Christian Humanism
What year (hundreds) did the Mongols take over China?
In the 1200s
Big Italian cities that were controlled by a single rich family and also controlled the government are called?
Humanists of the Renaissance were very religious often called devout (Blank)?
Christians
Where was one of Michelangelo's great paintings shown?
Sistine Chapel in the Vatican
Who was the German man who developed a printing press that used moveable type in the mid 1400s?
Johann Gutenberg
How many years did Marco Polo live?
Who rallied Florence in the year 1434?
Cosimo de' Medici
Dante Alighieri's major work of Literature is called?
The Divine Comedy
Who's paintings showed scenes from Roman myths?
Sandro Botticelli
What were the traditional subjects of Italian Renaissance Art?
Biblical scenes and classical myths
Who did the Polo family meet when they arrived in China?
The Kublai Khan family.
By the 1300s four northern Italian cities had become trading centers, what are the names of the cities?
Florence, Genoa, Milan, Venice
During the 1300s Turks had conquered much of the Byzantine Empire, scholars seeking to escape the Turks went were?
Italy
Where was Sandro Botticelli from? Venice or Florence?
Florence
What book did the Dutch priest Desiderius Erasmus publish?
The Praise of Folly