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Literature
Vocabulary
Art Influence(s)
Ruling Class
Trade
100
This kind of language included languages such as Italian, French, and German.
What is vernacular?
100
These are ideas related to worldly things, not just religion.
What is the secular?
100
He painted the Mona Lisa in c.1503.
Who is Leonardo Da Vinci?
100
This is a powerful individual who rules the Italian city-states.
What is a dictator?
100
The Italians gained wealth from this specific practice.
What is trade?
200
Geoffrey Chaucer wrote this famous vernacular work.
What is The Canterbury Tales?
200
During the Renaissance, citizens began living in more city-like areas.
What is living in an urban area?
200
He is the greatest English playwright of all time.
Who is William Shakespeare?
200
Two different kinds of people in Italian society formed a new kind of leadership in Italy's city-states.
Who are the wealthy merchants and bankers?
200
This made trade with various regions easier.
What is Italy's location?
300
A French poet named Dante Alighieri wrote one of the world's greatest poems.
What is The Divine Comedy?
300
They are soldiers who fight in an army for money.
What is a mercenary?
300
He appointed Michelangelo to work at the Vatican.
Who is Pope Julius II?
300
They formed ties of business and friendship with wealthy merchants.
Who are urban nobles?
300
The Mongols protected the practice of bartering along these trade routes.
What is the Silk Road?
400
Petrarch used Italian to write a type of short poem, which expressed his love for a woman who died from the Black Death.
What is a sonnet?
400
This word is French for "rebirth."
What is the Renaissance?
400
He developed art that focused on revealing one's emotions.
Who was Giotto?
400
These two groups ended up becoming the upper class of the Italian city-states.
Who are the rich merchants and nobles?
400
In addition to geography, two important events helped the Italians succeed in trade.
What are the Crusades and the Mongol conquests?
500
The form of language, used by many today, that Chaucer used in his writing.
What is English?
500
This is the art of making agreements along with other countries.
What is diplomacy?
500
This was a time period occurring between 1490 and 1520.
What was the golden age of Italian Renaissance painting?
500
Citizenship belonged only to two kinds of people in the Italian city-states.
Who are the merchants and artisans?
500
Italian merchants bought Indian spices from an assortment of merchants from various regions.
Who are the Byzantine, Turkish, and Arab merchants?