The Renaissance 1
A wealthy person during the Renaissance that commissioned artists and architects.
What is a patron?
A rebirth of culture regarding the arts and sciences, architecture and philosophy.
What is the Renaissance?
City at the southwestern edge of the Black Sea that had served as the capital of Christianity in Eastern Europe since the end of the Roman Empire.
What is Constantinople?
The native American people that built pyramids on the Yucatan Peninsula.
Who are the Mayans?
The top crop brought from the old world to the new world.
What is wheat?
Denoting attitudes, activities or other things not having to do with religion or the church.
What is secular?
The language or dialect native to a region.
What is vernacular?
The name that Constantinople was changed to after the Ottoman Turks conquered the city via use of cannon fire, beginning a new age of artillery warfare.
What is Istanbul?
The native American civilization that lived in the Andes mountains and were experts in terrace farming.
Who are the Incas?
The top crop for animals brought from the new world to the old world.
What is corn?
A Renaissance cultural movement which turned away from medieval scholasticism and revived interests in ancient Greek and Roman thought.
What is humanism?
A system of creating the illusion of depth on a flat surface.
What is Linear Perspective?
Due to the Muslim control of Istanbul, free trade between the far east and Europe ended therefore forcing European leaders to seek out other trade routes.
What is a direct sailing route to India?
English explorer in the early 17th century best known for his sailing expeditions in Canada.
Who is Henry Hudson?
The most destructive crop brought from the new world to the old world.
What is tobacco?
The Italian artist, architect and inventor that painted the 'Mona Lisa' and 'The Last Supper'.
Who is Leonardo da Vinci?
The Italian artist and sculptor that painted the Sistine Chapel.
Who is Michelangelo Buonarroti?
Italian explorer that landed in the Bahamas in the new world while searching for a direct sailing route to India for the Queen of Spain.
Who is Christopher Colombus?
Spanish explorer whose expedition led to the fall of the great Aztec empire.
Who is Hernan Cortes?
The top crop for people brought from the new world to the old world.
What are potatoes?
The organized crime family that sponsored a pirate to become Pope, became known as 'God's Bankers' and were the leading patrons of the Renaissance in Florence, Italy.
Who are the Medici?
Italian engineer, architect and artist best known for designing the dome in Florence and rediscovered the principles of linear perspective.
Who is Filippo Brunelleschi?
Italian explorer that sailed for the Republic of Florence, Italy of whom the Americas were named after.
Who is Amerigo Vespucci?
Portuguese explorer and the first to reach India by sea.
Who is Vasco da Gama?
The top 5 old world animals that revolutionized the new world.
What are Cows, Horses, Pigs, Chickens, Sheep?