Towns & Trade
What organizations regulated a particular craft, set quality standards, and trained apprentices?
Guilds
What city-state and region became a major birthplace of the Renaissance?
Italy
Which wealthy Florentine banking family supported artists such as Michelangelo?
The Medici Family
Which political thinker wrote The Prince and analyzed how rulers gain and keep power?
Niccolo Machiavelli
What was the highest level of a skilled craft worker in a guild?
A master craftsman
What intellectual movement revived classical Greek and Roman learning and emphasized human potential?
Humanism
Who painted the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper and studied science and anatomy?
Leonardo da Vinci
Which English writer and statesman wrote Utopia, describing an imagined society?
St. Thomas More
What traveling merchants’ alliance dominated trade across much of northern Europe?
Hanseatic League
What term describes an emphasis on worldly life and affairs rather than exclusively religious concerns?
Secularism
Who sculpted David and created the ceiling paintings of the Sistine Chapel?
Michelangelo
Which Dutch humanist criticized corruption and foolish behavior in Praise of Folly?
Desiderius Erasmus
What economic system emphasizes buying, selling, and making profits through trade?
Mercantilism
What term describes a person's own unique qualities, talents, and achievements?
Individualism
Who designed the dome of Florence Cathedral, known as the Duomo?
Filippo Brunelleschi
What word describes humor, irony, or exaggeration used to expose human flaws?
Satire
Ms. Cunningham is thinking of a number between 1 and 10... What is it?
8
What kind of education studied grammar, rhetoric, poetry, history, and moral philosophy?
A liberal arts education (Humanities)
What Italian poet wrote The Divine Comedy?
Dante Alighieri
What word describes something related to citizens and public life?
Civic