Italian City States
This was built because of the city-states great wealth.
What is large fleets?
The gold coin of Florence used to measure other money.
What is florin?
Powerful Florence leader, also father of Catherine de Medici.
Who is Lorenzo de Medici?
Important small city-state, also most famous city in Reniassance.
What is Florence?
A person who fights in the army for money.
What is a mercenary?
Italian city states grew wealthy through what?
What is trade?
These were the only people allowed access to the city's guilds. (Name atleast 1 out of the two for points.)
Who were artisans and merchants?
Wrote The Prince in 1513.
Who is Niccolo Machiavelli?
Wealthiest city of all city-states.
What is Venice?
What does the word renaissance mean?
What is rebirth?
Most important reason city-states stayed independent.
What is wealth?
Many of the city-states were this government.
What is a republic?
People who encouraged trade and protected Silk Road from China.
Who were the Mongols?
The Florence Symbol.
What is the Florence Cathedral?
Art of negotiating or making deals.
What is diplomacy?
Bought by Italians from Byzantines, Turks, and Arabs. Also sold to people in west for higher prices.
What is Chinese Silk and Indian spices?
Head of state which ruled in Venice. (Name the role in society.)
Who is the duke?
Merchant from the city of Venice, also went on adventure with father and uncle to meet ruler of Mongol empire, Kublai Khan.
Who is Marco Polo?
Places where caravans would carry goods from China to. (Say one of the two to get points.)
What is the Byzantine and Muslim cities?
Process of sealing wood.
What is caulking?
Encouraged because people liked city-states.
Each city-state sent this type of people to live in other city-states to act as representatives for their city.
Who are ambassadors?
Wealthy men of Italian city-states, new type of leader.
Who were the Urban Nobles?
Surrounded Florence and also beautiful hills were near the banks of this location.
What is the Arno River?
More interested in world than religion and getting into heaven.
What is secular?