Silk Road
The Silk Road trade spread from this country to this coastline.
What was Asia to the Med. Sea?
Italian Renaissance city that was owned by Cosimo de Medici and created wealth through banking and textile trade.
What is Florence?
Italian Ren. artists who painted the Mona Lisa/Last Supper and created many unique inventions.
Who was Leonardo da Vinci?
Cosimo de Medici created this in Florence.
What was banking?
Greek philosopher who taught by asking questions.
Who was Socrates?
This helped Italy gain wealth and influence during the renaissance.
What was a land trade tax?
This Italian Ren. city is known as the "fashion" capital of the world and was a center of great trade of silk and weapons.
What is Milan?
This famous artists painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.
Who was Michelangelo?
Leonardo da Vinci painted many very famous portraits, this was his most famous.
What is the Mona Lisa?
The father of Alexander the Great.
Who was King Philip II?
These people were the people who used the Silk Road the most often.
Who were traders and travelers?
This Italian Ren. city is built on many canals and was a great trade city of glass.
What is Venice?
This famous Italian Ren. writer wrote a book called The Prince and was quoted "better to be feared than loved."
Who was Niccolo Machiavelli?
Michelangelo painted this ceiling for the pope during the renaissance.
What is the Sistine Chapel?
The leaders of the Byzantine Empire.
Who were Justinian and Theodora?
These animals were widely used in a caravan across the Silk Road.
What were camels?
This Italian Renaissance city was the first to spread the plague in Europe and was a major trade city.
What was Genoa?
This Italian writer wrote poems in Italian for the common people.
Who was Dante Alighieri?
Niccolo Machiavelli wrote this book during the renaissance.
What is The Prince?
The age that Spartan boys went to war camp.
What was seven years old?
This Mongolian leader protected the checkpoints of the Silk Road.
Who was Kublai Khan?
This renaissance city has the Tiber River flowing through it.
What is Rome?
This person of the Italian Renaissance wanted Florence to be the most beautiful city in the world.
Who was Cosimo de Medici?
Leonardo da Vinci created this invention with great detail to the human body after studying the flight of birds.
What was the "flying machine?"
This pope crowned Charlemagne "emperor" of the Romans in 800 AD.
Who was Pope Leo III?