Geography of Italy
Italian City-States
Family and Marriage
The Medici Family
Renaissance Introduction
100
Because of the advantage of their geographic location, Italy had closer ties to this group of people than other European countries. As a result, they were able to develop more in science, medicine, and astronomy. They also gained new foods and other valuable products.
Who are the Muslim States?
100
They had the power to imprison, torture, and execute citizens, and it was all done in secret.
What is The Council of Ten in Venice?
100
These laws controlled how people spent their money on weddings, dinners, clothing, etc. at the time of the Renaissance.
What are sumptuary laws?
100
It is the city-state where the Medici family came to power.
What is Florence?
100
The Renaissance of Europe can be divided into Northern and Southern. Of the two regions, which one is most credited with the beginning of the Renaissance?
What is Southern Europe?
200
Normally this geographic feature makes trade difficult. But, because some old Roman roads still existed in these areas, they flourished as trading centers. City-states such as Assisi and Florence were located near this geographic land feature.
What are mountains? (The Apennines Mountains)
200
Built on piles which were stuck in the marshy lands below, this city with its network of canals grew as a one-of-a-kind remarkable city of 150,000 people during the Renaissance.
What is Venice?
200
In comparing statistics regarding people who were married in cities or in the countryside during the Renaissance - men and women in this location had a lower average difference in age.
What is the country-side?
200
They were famous artists who were sponsered by the Medici Family.
Who were Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo Buonarotti?
200
It is the thought that people can improve themselves and their society through their own efforts.
What is humanism?
300
These city-states grew in the east and west of Italy because they were located on harbors.
What were Venice and Genoa?
300
It was a common form of government that developed in the city-states where a few wealthy and powerful people ruled and controlled the city. Families often formed this type of government in Renaissance Italy.
What is an oligarchy?
300
This extravagant and luxurious item often cost as much as hiring a laborer fro 500 days.
What is a wedding gown?
300
He was a banker and a merchant who gained control of Florence by 1434. He was known for using his wealth to exile enemies from his city, but he also began the Medici support for the arts.
Who is Cosimo Medici?
300
This period of art usually had a religious theme, and its main purpose was to remind and teach people about God.
What is Medieval art?
400
This geographic condition helped trade and travel run smoothly (uninterrupted). It also helped to establish a sustainable supply of food year round. People could spend less time worrying about their basic needs and more time developing culture instead because of this geographic condition.
What is a (mild) climate?
400
It is the surrounding area around a city-state which provides food and other necessities.
What is a hinterland?
400
This type of marriage was common for wealthy people of the Renaissance, and was often done to benefit the family with new connections, jobs, business, and social advantages.
What is an arranged marriage?
400
Once wounded by assassins, he later became a patron of the arts, and intellectual, and great contributor to the wealth, beauty, and success of Florence.
Who is Lorenzo the Magnificent?
400
Due to thoughts of short lives filled with suffering, the Middle Ages were often viewed in this way.
What is pessimistically?
500
With advantages of being located on a plain, near the Arno River, and near an old trade route which ran to Rome, Naples, Genoa, and Venice - this city-state grew into one of the most powerful and wealthy on the Italian peninsula.
What is Florence?
500
Many city-states grew into beautiful and impressive world famous cities due to these people who supported artists and architects to create great works of art and great buildings.
Who are wealthy patrons (merchants, families)?
500
A large sum of money or other possessions that had to be paid by the wealthy family of a bride to the new husband's family.
What is a dowry?
500
They are two occupations that helped the Medici gain wealth before rising to power in Florence.
What are merchants and bankers?
500
These are places which produced great artists and thinkers who influenced Renaissance people.
What are Ancient (Classical) Greece and Rome?
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