Renaissance
The Renaissance is about.
What is a period of renewed interest in art, science, and learning based on classical Greek and Roman ideas?
How did Buddhism change after entering China from India?
It adapted to Chinese culture and blended with existing beliefs like Daoism and Confucianism
This Italian Renaissance figure designed flying machines and studied human anatomy.
Who is Leonardo da Vinci?
These small animals carried the fleas that spread the Black Death.
What are rats?
This explorer’s 1492 voyage was funded by Spain, but he was actually from this modern-day country.
What is Italy?
Why did the Renaissance begin in Italy rather than northern Europe?
What is because of its wealth from trade and connection to ancient Roman culture
Why was the Grand Canal more important than building new roads across China?
Water transportation was more efficient for moving large amounts of goods
This Italian scientist improved the telescope and supported the idea that Earth orbits the sun.
Who is Galileo Galilei?
This continent was most heavily affected by the Black Death during the 14th century.
What is Europe?
This system allowed the Inca to send messages quickly across their empire without a written language.
What are runners (or the Inca messenger system)?
How did wealthy families like the Medici influence the Renaissance?
What is they sponsored artists, writers, and scientists
What was the main effect of China’s geography on its early development?
It created natural barriers that limited contact but encouraged internal unity and centralized rule
This major waterway built during the Sui Dynasty connected northern and southern China.
What is the Grand Canal?
This was the main way the disease spread from person to person.
What is through infected fleas and human contact?
This African empire became wealthy by controlling the trade of gold and salt across the Sahara.
What is the Mali Empire?
How did the fall of Constantinople help spread Renaissance ideas?
What is Greek scholars fled to Italy bringing ancient texts and knowledge
How did the Tang Dynasty’s success in trade affect its culture?
It became more diverse due to increased contact with foreign merchants and ideas
This European inventor of the printing press helped spread Renaissance ideas quickly.
Who is Johannes Gutenberg?
This system began to weaken as a result of the population decline caused by the plague.
What is feudalism?
This ruler of Mali is famous for his pilgrimage to Mecca, which showed his empire’s wealth.
Who is Mansa Musa?
How did Renaissance thinking challenge medieval ideas about knowledge and authority?
What is it emphasized reason, observation, and human achievement instead of relying only on religious authority?
How did the civil service system both strengthen and limit social mobility in imperial China?
What is it allowed some advancement through exams, but wealthy families still had better access to education and preparation
This Italian scientist challenged traditional beliefs by emphasizing observation and experimentation.
Who is Galileo Galilei?
This long-term effect of the Black Death changed people’s views on the Church and authority.
What is a decline in trust in the Church (or questioning of authority)?
This broader historical process explains how ideas, goods, and diseases spread between continents after Columbus’s voyages.
What is cultural diffusion?