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This family of merchants and bankers lived in Florence. They were art patrons and political leaders.
Who is the Medici family
What was one reason that the Renaissance began in Italy?
What is Money, many city states were mini-industrial powerhouses, each specializing in a particular product. The cities of Venice and Genoa got stinking rich from trade.
The printing press was the name of the invention that allowed new ideas to spread throughout Europe. Who invented it?
Gutenberg, Da Vinci, Michelangelo
Who is Gutenberg
The lady in this painting has a mysterious smile.What's the name of the painting?
What is the Mona Lisa
Renaissance art and literature focused on individuals and worldly matters, along with Christianity. True or False
What is true
This person was considered the "father of Humanism"
Raphael, Petrarch, Thomas More
who is Petrarch
What is humanism?
Celebrated the individual. Stimulated the study of Greek and Roman literature and culture. humanists were supported by patrons who were very wealthy.
What Renaissance scientists invented the heliocentric model of the solar system? The Sun is at the center of the Solar System.
Da Vinci, Ptolemy, Copernicus
Who is Copernicus
This painting showed Christ surrounded by his twelve disciples.
What is the Last Supper
This percentage of Europeans never encountered the Renaissance's opulence or art or modes of thought. 95%, 90%, 75%
What is 95%
Name 2- 3 famous works of art by Michelangelo.
What is Pieta Sistine Chapel's ceiling David
The term Renaissance means
what is Rebirth, rebirth of art and learning.
The Renaissance encouraged the use of baking and this economic term.
D T I E R C
what is credit
Michelangelo painted this on the ceiling of this chapel. What was the name of the chapel?
What is Sistine
This economic activity really does bind the world together. Five letters starts with a T.
T E D A R
What is Trade
This man was considered as the catalyst for the Protestant Reformation.
Thomas More, Erasmus, Petrarch
Who is Erasmus
The Renaissance began
Where is Northern Italy
What Muslim empire helped with the birth of the Renaissance?
what is the Ottoman Empire
Sculpted David and the Pieta.
Who was Michelangelo
Medieval art and literature focused mainly on salvation and what?
What is the Church
What was Machiavelli's ideal ruler like??
What is one should do good if possible, but do evil when necessary. He felt the ends justified the means.
This chemical made colors vibrant and was found mainly in the Ottoman Empire.
Indigo, Boron, Alum
What is Alum
The rediscovery of these two cultures helped with the birth of The Renaissance.
What is Roman and Greek
Renaissance art tends to feature a focus on what kind of form?
What is Human
Venetians exported these , another name for clothes, to the Ottoman Turks. Eight letters stars with T and ens with S
T T E X I E L S
What are textiles