The City-States
Impact on Modern Day
Modern Italy
Artifacts
100

The primary spoken and written language of the Italian city-states

What is Italian?

100

The ______ Revolution led to knowledge being easily available in uniform copies

What was the Printing Revolution?

100

What has happened to religious activity in Italy since the time of the city-states?

It has decreased

100

This still is used to help represent the US legal system. Commonly found in courthouses

What is the Lady Justice statue (Justitia)?

200

The top class in the Italian city-states

Who were merchants and nobility?

200

The studies of Leonardo da Vinci form the basis of what we know of ____ ______.

What is human anatomy?

200

A dish stemming from Italy other than pizza (specific)

What is gnocchi?

200

The banking family who collected taxes for the Pope out of Florence

Who were the Medici?

300

These were the six main powers in the Italian city-states

What are Florence, Milan, Naples, Venice, Sicily, and the Papal States?

300

The Asian-European trade route the Italian Peninsula was located on

What was the Silk Road?

300

 The current estimated population of Italy

What is 58 million?

300

The Italian publisher based in Venice who helped popularize the printing press

Who was Aldus Manutius?

400

Shops that sold herbal remedies

What is an apothecary?

400

The precedent set by the justice system of the Italian city-states

What is the discretion of the judge?

400

The year Italy was united

When was 1861?

400

The person who founded Florence in this year (need 2 answers)

Who was Julius Caesar? When was 59 BCE?

500

The political party who supported imperial rule as opposed to that of the Pope

Who were the Ghibellines?

500

The percentage of the taxes collected by the Medici bank that they would keep. The rest was collected for the Pope’s office

10%

500

Why the welfare system in Italy is not sustainable

The low birth rates mean that there will be less people to care for the old

500

The person who used Leonardo da Vinci’s sketches to help stop the practice of bloodletting

Who was William Harvey?