Origins of the Renaissance
This road connected Asia and China during the Renaissance.
What is the Silk Road?
The study of history, literature, public speaking, and art that led to a new way of thinking during the Renaissance.
This group did not want individuals studying the Bible on their own.
What is the church?
This explorer frequented the Silk Road during the Renaissance.
Who is Marco Polo?
In 2x = 10, this is x.
What is 5?
A fee that borrowers pay for the use of someone else's money.
Interest
The humanists were inspired by classical texts from these ancient civilizations.
What are Greece and Rome.
While Italian painters were paintings inspired by classical myths, Northern European painters painted scenes from this.
What is daily life?
This early Renaissance writer was a politician and poet and he wrote The Divine Comedy.
Who is Dante (Alighieri)?
This Renaissance writer is still famous for his sonnets and plays.
Who is William Shakespeare?
"Renaissance" means this.
What is rebirth?
Artists used a new discovery to make three-dimensional scene look real.
What is perspective?
This invention made the printing of books and papers faster and easier.
What is the printing press?
This early Renaissance writer and politician wrote about how rulers should rule in a book called The Prince.
Who is (Niccolo) Machiavelli?
In 3x + 4 = 28, this is x.
What is 8?
Italian cities became major trading centers because of their proximity to this sea.
What is the Mediterranean sea?
Mathematicians from the Muslim world developed these things that we still use in math today.
What are symbols? ( + , - )
The first book printed on the printing press.
What is the Bible?
This Renaissance man, painted The Last Supper, The Mona Lisa, and also made many advancements in science.
Who is Leonardo da Vinci?
This Italian poet believed God set humans at the center of the world.
Who is Petrarch?
These two cities were major trading cities in Renaissance Italy.
Milan / Genoa / Venice / Florence
A major scientific advancement was learning that the planets of our solar system all revolve around this.
What is the sun?
This is where Shakespeare's plays were first performed.
What is the globe theater?
This painter created the work on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.
Who is Michelangelo?
This is the Spanish writer authored Don Quixote.
Who is Miguel de Cervantes?