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He wrote the Prince.
Who was Machiavelli?
The Italian Renaissance revived the ideas of Ancient _______ and _______.
What is Greece and Rome?
This term describes the idea of powerful city-states being the center of political, economic, and social life.
What is urban society?
He was a painter, sculptor, architect, inventor, and mathematician.
Who was Leonardo da Vinci?
This family ruled Florence for the majority of the 1400s.
Who are the Medici?
The Printing Press was invented in Germany, and this was the first book it ever printed fully (though not for 15 years after the press was first invented).
What is the bible?
This is a payment made from a bride's family to the groom's family in an arranged marriage.
What is a dowry?
A famous quote from the Prince was that the ends ________ the means.
What is justify?
He invented the movable type printing press.
Who is Gutenberg?
Mercenaries were very upset for this reason when they arrived in Rome in 1527.
This is a worldly viewpoint, different from a viewpoint based on religion or the afterlife.
What is secular?
This was the largest social class of people in Renaissance Europe.
What are peasants?
This was the Dominican priest who briefly led Florence before upsetting people with his harsh rules about gambling, swearing, and music.
Who was Savonarola?
This is the name of 4 city-states in Renaissance Italy.
What is Venice, Milan, Florence, and Rome?
In the social class system, this group made up 2-3% of the population.
What is the nobility?
This country gained dominance of Italy after the Italian Wars.
Who was Spain?
He led a band of mercenaries to fight for control of Milan.
Who is Sforza?
Michelangelo famously painted this.
What is the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel?
In the Renaissance class system, Townspeople were divided into four categories, name 2.
What is unemployed, workers, burghers, and patricians?
Castiglione wrote this to explain the characteristics of a perfect Aristocrat.
What is the Book of the Courtier?