growth of nations, onset of deadly plague, and the Hundred Years' War.
What are events that brought an end to feudal society.
100
the growth of banking, encouranging artists to create and financial support from wealthy merchants.
What made Florence an early center of the Renaissance?
100
cultural interactions, growth of towns, support from region's powerful rulers.
What are factors that helped the Renaissance spread north?
100
Europe with China.
What are two regions the Silk Roads connected.
100
the painting "Peasants' Dance".
Who is Renaissance artist Pieter Bruegel the Elder.
200
large population decline through Europe with fewer serfs to work land and end of chivalry.
What is the role that the plague and the Hundred Years' War played in decline of feudalism.
200
center of the Roman Empire, many trade routes between Europe and Asia.
Why is Italy the birthplace of the Renaissance?
200
purchasing paintings and providing financial support to artists and writers.
What did northern European monarchs do to encourage the Renaissance?
200
technique producing the appearance of three dimensions in art.
What is "perspective"?
200
...The brightness of her cheek would shame those stars...
What is Romeo and Juliet, written by William Shakespeare?
300
increase in trade and strong merchant class.
What is the effect on Europe when reopening the Silk Roads.
300
painting realism, 3-D, light, architecture, engineering, literature not in Latin.
What are notable achievements by Renaissance figures?
300
did not study the classics, created works much more detailed about everyday life.
What is different about Northern and Italian Renaissance?
300
wealthy people with time to study classical texts, examine humanist ideas and well educated to take part in Renaissance activities.
Why did the Renaissance influence mainly the upper class?
300
Petrarch.
Who is a leader, scholar and Italian poet of the early humanist movement?
400
encouraged European merchants to increase their trade with Asia. Asia: A host of new goods and ideas.
What is Marco Polo's contribution to European trade growth?
400
upper class, middle class, and lower class.
What groups made up different social classes in Renaissance Italy?
400
mathematics, science and technology.
What are Renaissance advances occurring outside the arts?
400
printing press, letters in algebraic equations, new theories about the universe, understanding of minerals and metals, anatomy, cartography(mapmaking.)
What are advances in Science and Technology during the Renaissance?
400
native language.
What is vernacular?
500
stressed the importance of individuals and encouraged human achievement in all areas of society.
What is the main goal of humanism?
500
Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo and Raphael.
Who were three artists that dominated the Italian Renaissance?
500
fueled the spread of Renaissance ideas.
What is the effect of the printing press on European society?