Renaissance 1
A way of structuring society around relationships that were derived from the holding of land in exchange for service or labor.
What is feudalism
This was worth more than gold.
What is pepper?
An important results of the Crusades for Europeans
What is contact with Muslim civilivation
A region that is independently ruled by a major city .
What is a city-state?
More than just trade goods were passed along the Silk Road
What are ideas?
Europeans were exposed to new ideas about what because of their travels and contacts?
What is medicine, astronomy, philosophy, mathematics and literature?
The area around a city or town; Rural
What is a hinterland?
This way of lending and keeping money began during the Renaissance. Today, we have multiple of these around our city.
What are banks?
This explorer travelled to Cathay
Who is Marco Polo?
This people group was more advanced than Italy.
Who are the people form the Middle East (Who are Muslims)?
The practice of making unethical or immoral monetary loans intended to unfairly enrich the lender
What is usury?
Merchants made money by buying products and goods and selling them at higher prices.
What is a business practice? (What is commerce?)
Italian city-states became wealthy primarily because of this.
What is intercontinental trade (What is trade)?
This extends over 8000 km (5,000 miles) on land and sea.
What is the Silk Road
A series of religious wars between Christians and Muslims started primarily to secure control of holy sites considered sacred by both groups.
What are the Crusades?
A form of government in which the country is considered a "public matter", not the private concern or property of the rulers.
What is a republic?
The drive for more trade, wealth and thus more power, led the merchants to seek out more places and contact with even more countries in the Mediterranean region.
What is competition between city-states?
Western Europe got these items from the East in trade.
What are spices and silk?
Genoa and Venice are located in this geography
What is a seaport?
In 1187, Saladin began a major campaign against the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem. His troops virtually destroyed the Christian army at the battle of Hattin, taking back the important city along with a large amount of territory.
What is the third Crusade?
A rebellion among unrepresented labourers which occurred in Florence, Italy from 1378 to 1382.
What is The Revolt of the Ciompi?