Economic Foundations
Wealth/Rulers
Italian Renaissance
Northern Europe Renaissance
Miscellaneous
100
Stimulated trade by introducing Europeans to luxury goods from the Middle East
What are the Crusades?
100
The accumulation of wealth by this group of people helped spur on the Renaissance
Who are merchants?
100
Painted the Mona Lisa
Who is Leonardo Da Vinci?
100
Wrote The Praise of Folly, a criticism of the corruption and abuse in the Christian Church.
Who is Erasmus?
100
Northern renaissance artists portrayed religious and non religious subjects. Another name for non-religious.
What is secular?
200
This word means to lend money at a high interest rate.
What is usury?
200
Wrote the Prince
Who is Machiavelli?
200
Sculpted David
Who is Michelangelo?
200
Year in Praise of Folly was written
What is 1511?
200
Northern renaissance thinkers merged humanist ideas with this religion.
What is Christianity?
300
Trade encouraged the use of this type of "money"
What is letters of credit
300
What Machiavelli advises rulers about good and evil.
What is do good if possible but evil if necessary?
300
Painted the Last Supper
Who is Leonardo Da Vinci?
300
Wrote Utopia
Who is Sir Thomas More?
300
This movement celebrated the individual, and stimulated the study of Greek and Roman literature and culture
What is humanism?
400
The Church forbid money-lending, so these institutions were created.
What are banks?
400
The kind of power Machiavelli recommends a ruler has in his treatise (essay) on government
What is absolute power?
400
Painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel with biblical scenes, including Genesis
Who is Michelangelo?
400
Year Utopia was written
What is 1516?
400
This person supports the arts by paying for art
What is a patron?
500
Trade with these two empires promoted frequent contact (Hint: B & M)
What are the Byzantine and Muslim empires?
500
The three city states of the Italian Renaissance
What are Florence, Venice, and Genoa?
500
Humanist scholar who also wrote poems called sonnets to Laura
Who is Petrarch?
500
Invented the moveable type printing press in Germany
Who is Gutenberg?
500
Florence, Genoa and Venice were independent city-states governed as
What are republics?
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