Venice
The Mongols helped increase trade between Europe and Asia by
making the Silk Road safe to travel again.
One important feature that Venice and Genoa shared was that
both were important port cities on the Mediterranean Sea.
How do prices affect trade?
When prices are low, trade increases.
What effect did the merchant families have on the Renaissance in Italian cities?
The families supported arts and learning.
Machiavelli wanted to have an effect on
politics.
How are classical and Renaissance statues alike?
Both feature realistic and lifelike poses.
What was the most important feature of humanism in northern Europe?
Scholars combined humanist and religious ideas.
The translation of the Bible from Latin to vernacular languages caused
more people to learn to read.
Cosimo de´ Medici made _ the center of Italian art, literature, and culture during the Renaissance.
Florence
Renaissance artists used a new technique called _ to create the appearance of depth and distance on a flat surface.
perspective
_ was a true Renaissance person: besides his expertise as a painter, he was an inventor, a sculptor, an engineer, and an architect.
Leonardo da Vinci
The complaints that Martin Luther nailed to the door of a church are called the _ .
Ninety-Five Theses
St. Ignatius of Loyola and St. Francis Xavier both
taught people about Catholic ideas.
Why was the Catholic religion strong in Spain?
People who were not Catholic were thrown out, converted, or killed.
During the late Renaissance, the practices of the Roman Catholic Church
weakened the church’s influence.
John Calvin’s teachings helped bring about the
rise of capitalism.
Petrarch’s ideas helped people understand the importance of
history, and his ideas affected education for many years.
Miguel de Cervantes is best known for
Don Quixote
In Romeo and Juliet, Romeo says, “Juliet is the sun.” This represents
a humanist idea, because a person can be as important as the sun.
The printing press affected the spread of ideas during the Renaissance the same way that
the Internet affects the spread of ideas today.
Women in noble families helped spread Renaissance ideas in all of the following ways except
women were educated at the universities.
Which effect of the Reformation has had the greatest influence on American society?
A system of government developed in which people could rule themselves.
The _ was a law that granted religious freedom throughout most of France.
Edict of Nantes
One of the effects of the Protestant Reformation was the growth of _ .
federalism
While the Italian Renaissance focused on Greek and Roman history, the Northern Renaissance focused on _ history.
Christian