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Vocabulary
Silk Road
Italian City States
Banking Practices
Worldview/Big Ideas
100
a politically independent region
What is a city-state?
100
The eastern edge of the Silk Road.
What is China?
100
A type of social organization that was not as strong in Italy.
What is Feudalism?
100
Businesses owned by more than one person to reduce risk.
What are partnerships?
100
A very important value in the Middle Ages.
What is obedience?
200
A country where the leader is chosen by the citizens not by his/her birth family.
What is a republic?
200
The major body of water that was the western edge of the Silk Road.
What is the Mediterranean?
200
Allowed Italian city-states to have goods to trade.
What is Climate?
200
Called a cheque today.
What are bills of exchange?
200
This became less of a focus as wealth increased.
What is religion?
300
The practice of charging interest on a loan.
What is usury?
300
TThe country that controlled much of Europe's access to the silk road.
What is Italy?
300
One reason Italy was the centre of European trading routes.
What is Italy's geography?
300
Protects your goods if they are lost or damaged.
What is insurance.
300
Another name for expensive items that Europeans desired.
What are luxury goods?
400
The area around a city used to grow crops for trade.
What is hinterland?
400
Besides trade goods this was also gathered during travels on the silk road.
What are ideas and knowledge.
400
The city-state where the Medici family lived.
What is Florence?
400
A place to keep money safe and/or access money when needed.
What are banks?
400
The meaning of the word Renaissance?
What is rebirth?
500
Another name for a city.
What is an urban centre?
500
These events allowed Europeans to contact other cultures before the silk road.
What are the Crusades.
500
Cities with direct access to seas or oceans.
What are port cities?
500
Another name for a trader or shop keeper.
What is a merchant?
500
The process that Europe is going through from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance?
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