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The Renaissance is Born
Trade
Important People
Rulers and Government
Humanism
100
This is the birthplace of the Renaissance and the heart of the old Roman Empire.
What is Italy?
100
The center of the Mediterranean world with many port cities located along the coast.
What is the Italian peninsula?
100
This person created the printing press which led to new ideas.
Who is Gutenberg?
100
This place remained a collection of states with no rulers.
What is Italy?
100
Humanism is based on the ideas of these people.
Who were the Romans and Greeks?
200
The Renaissance began after fear of this disease died down.
What is the Black Death?
200
These items were sold for very high prices in Italy and Western Europe.
What are Chinese Silk and Indian Spices?
200
Marco Polo left his home in Venice in hopes of meeting this person.
Who is Kublai Khan?
200
These people fought in the armies of the independent states.
What are mercenaries?
200
A famous humanist scholar that lived in Italy during the 1300s.
Who is Francesco Petrarch?
300
The Europeans valuing human efforts outside of religion.
What is "they became more secular?"
300
Two important events that helped the Italians succeed in trade.
What are the Crusades and Mongol conquests?
300
One of the most famous artists, born in Florence.
Who is Leonardo da Vinci?
300
These city-states weren't always so and began as these things.
What is a republic?
300
These scholars passed their knowledge along to the European people.
Who are the Arab Muslim scholars?
400
These were adopted by Europeans after seeing that they could make a difference.
What are Greek and Roman ideals?
400
Mongols protected trade along this, making it easier for caravans to travel.
What is the Silk Road?
400
Hired by Pope Julius II in 1508 to work at the Vatican.
Who is Michelangelo?
400
This person is known as the ruler in Venice even though a council really held the power.
What is the duke or dodge?
400
Humanism focuses on these things in particular.
What is giving importance to society and the individual and gaining knowledge through reason, not just religious faith?
500
More people lived in the cities of Italy.
What is they became more urban?
500
A merchant who left his home in the 1270s with his father and uncle.
Who is Marco Polo?
500
A poet from Florence in the early 1300s who wrote The Divine Comedy.
Who is Dante Aligheiri?
500
This family controlled the government in Florence for many years.
What is the Medici family?
500
Educated Europeans used these two languages in their works in addition to studying the classics.
What are vernacular and classical Latin?