Italy
Artists
Geography
Potpourri
Legacies and Innovations
100

Painted by da Vinci, it features one of the most famous smiles in history.

What is the Mona Lisa?


100

English author of 'Henry V'.

Who is Shakespeare?

100

A town or city with a harbor where ships load or unload.

What is a port?

100

This was the first book printed by Gutenberg.

What is the Bible?

100

Chinese invention which allowed the copying of text.

What is the printing press?

200

Used for transportation instead of roads in Venice.

What are canals?

200

Prolific Italian artist, creator of the 13 foot tall statue 'David'.

Who is Michelangelo?

200

Peninsula where Rome, Venice and Naples are.

What is the Italian peninsula?

200

Florence would use these to determine the value of one currency verses the money in another nation.

What are banks?


200

Famous traveler to China in the east, and the road he and many travelers used.

Who is Marco Polo and the Silk Road?

300

The most powerful family of the Italian Renaissance. 

What is the Medici. 

300

Famous ceiling painted during the Renaissance.

What is the Sistine Chapel?

300

Mountain range running North and South in Italy.

What are the Apennines?

300

A watercolor painting made on wet plaster.

What is a fresco?


300
Developed by Petrarch and others, an understanding that gave importance to humans and human society.

What is humanism?

400

This would be the first powerful trade city of the time.

What is Florence?

400

System where nobles and the Church would pay artists to create works of art.

What is patronage?

400
City inside Rome that houses the papacy.

What is Vatican City?

400

The language John Wycliffe translated the Bible into.

What is English?

400

Method of interacting with a neighboring country, developed by Italy.

What is diplomacy?

500

Patriarch of the Medici family, known as 'The Magnificent'.

Who is Lorenzo de' Medici?


500

Three of the nations talked about in the 'Northern Renaissance'.

What are Germany, Luxembourg, Belgium and the Netherlands?

500
The major river in Northern Italy.

What is the Po River?

500

Name of Shakespeare's theater.

What is the Globe Theater?


500

In art, a way of showing people and things as they appear at different distances.

What is perspective?