Trade, Goods, and Commerce
Highly prized for making food taste better, some types of this trade item were worth more than their weight in gold.
What are spices?
This term refers to the rural countryside or suburbs surrounding an independent Italian city-state.
What is the hinterland?
A network of trading routes connecting Eastern Asia, the Middle East, Africa and Europe.
What is the Silk Road?
From a European perspective, the main goal of the Crusades was the conquest of this sacred region.
What is the Holy Land?
This famous Venetian merchant and explorer made a legendary journey along the Silk Road to East Asia.
Who is Marco Polo?
This was the cheapest and most common method used by merchants to transport goods across long distances during the Renaissance.
What is shipping (or by boat)?
Good crop growing conditions and fewer trade disruptions were advantages provided by Italy's mild version of this natural factor.
What is climate?
A politically independent city and the rural area around it
What is a city-state?
An unintentional result of the Crusades was exposing Europeans to the culture, goods, and advanced learning of this civilization.
What is Muslim society?
Trade expanded rapidly in northern Italy in part because this rigid medieval social system was much weaker there than in the rest of Europe.
What is feudalism?
In addition to long travel times and cargo limits, moving goods was expensive due to concerns surrounding this.
What is safety?
Almost all major inland trade routes and cities in Europe were built alongside these natural physical features.
What are major rivers?
A country ruled by a king or queen.
What is a monarchy?
Beyond bringing back goods, a major geographical and economic result of travel during the Crusades was establishing these.
What are trade routes?
This prominent family revolutionized European banking and financial practices in Florence during the Renaissance.
Who are the Medici?
Intense competition among Italian city-states to expand trade and gain wealth led to an increase in this negative result.
What is war?
This specific type of map uses shading or colour coding to show the different heights of land.
What is a relief map?
This was considered a sin in the Middle Ages. Today, it’s commonly what banks do.
What is usury?
In Muslim cities, Jewish and Christian citizens were allowed to live peacefully as long as they paid this.
This wealthy social class made money by purchasing goods in one place and selling them elsewhere for a higher price.
Who are merchants?
This vocabulary term describes the study of the production, distribution, and consumption of resources and goods.
What is economics?
A kind of city-state where the people held the power, like Florence.
What is a republic?
Anything that is directly related to people and their activities, and how it's shaped by their environment.
What is human geography?
During the Middle Ages, this city was the largest on Earth, famous for its massive library and welcoming environment for different cultures.
What is Baghdad?
This famous city-state is known as the gateway city to Eastern trade.
What is Venice?