End of the Middle Ages
This deadly event killed millions of people and caused major social and economic changes.
What is the Black Death?
These routes were reopened and connected Europe to Asia.
What are the Silk Roads?
The Renaissance began in this country.
What is Italy?
This term means artists tried to make people and objects look lifelike.
What is realism?
This invention allowed books to be produced quickly and cheaply.
What is the printing press?
The Hundred Years war weakened feudalism and reduced the importance of these.
What are Knights?
This empire helped make travel safer, allowing trade to grow.
What is the Mongol Empire?
This city became one of the most important Renaissance centers due to banking and trade.
What is Florence?
This technique was used to create the appearance of depth in paintings.
What is perspective?
This man invented the printing press.
Who is Johann Gutenberg?
This system lost power as strong nations grew.
What is feudalism?
This traveler’s journey to China introduced Europeans to new goods and ideas.
Who is Marco Polo?
Wealthy individuals who supported artists were called this.
What are patrons?
Leonardo da Vinci created the Mona Lisa and was also a scientist and inventor.
Who is Leonardo da Vinci?
Before this invention, books were copied this way.
What is by hand?
As nations like England and France became more powerful, this group gained control.
Who are kings (monarchs)?
This new wealthy social group developed as trade increased.
What is the merchant class?
Italy’s wealth largely came from this economic activity.
What is trade?
Michelangelo painted this famous ceiling.
What is the Sistine Chapel ceiling?
The printing press helped increase this ability to read and write.
What is literacy?
The decline of the Middle Ages was caused by events like the Black Death and this war.
What is the Hundred Years’ War?
This way of thinking focused on human potential, achievement, and education.
What is humanism?
The Renaissance began in Italy partly because it had strong connections to this ancient civilization.
What is Rome?
Raphael was known for this type of paintings.
What are balanced and realistic paintings?
Writing in everyday language instead of Latin is called this.
What is vernacular?