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Lesson 1 The Renaissance Begins
Quiz by rocky
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What changed greatly in Europe between 1350 and 1650?
What happened as the Black Death eased?
Their interest in learning and the arts was called the ______________________
Renaissance came from the French word for _________________
The Renaissance sparked a renewed interest in ancient ________________________
European scholars improved their undersanding of ____________________________
What did European scholars use their understanding of Greek and Latin languages for?
What did Europeans adopt?
During the Renaissance, most Europeans were still ______________________
What happened as a result of Europeans beginning to value human efforts outside religion?
What did the Europeans become more interested in?
Where was the birthplace of the Renaissance?
Italy was the heart of _______________________________________
What was familiar to Italians?
What happened as a result of the ruins and statues being familiar to Italians?
Why did arts flourish by the 1300s?
Who could leading citizens in Italian cities pay to produce many new works?
What encouraged the Renaissance?
The population of Italy was becoming more _______________
Where did most people still live in other parts of Europe?
Who else lived in rural areas?
What happened to Italy as a result of its city life?
What did large city populations mean?
What else did large city populations develop?
Large city populations also mean't ________________________________________________
Like the city'states of ancient Greece, Renaissance Italy's urban society and scholars produced __________________________________________
Who produced many great works of art and literature?
During the Middle Ages, Italy remained a collection of _______________________
During the Middle Ages, Italy remained a collection of states, many of which were _________________________________
Why was much of Italy independent city-states?
Why didn't the Catholic Church want a united Italy?
The independent states in Italy were ____________________
What happened between independent states?
What were some of the most important cities of the Italian Renaissance?
Why did the Renaissance begin in Italy?
Why were Italy's states independent?
What did Italy's states use their wealth for?
Who did Italy's states hire to fight in their armies?
Who loaned money to the kings of Europe?
Who did wealthy merchants and bankers in Italy's states loan money to?
How did the Italian states gain their wealth?
What did the long stretch of the Italian peninsula mean?
The Italian peninsula was in the center of the _____________________
Where do the Byzantine and Ottoman Empires lay?
Where do Spain and France lay?
What was a short distance to the south?
What made trade with Byzantine, Ottoman, Spain, France and North Africa easier?
In eastern ports such as Constantinople, who bought Chinese silk and Indian spices from Byzantine, Turkish and Arab merchants?Â
What did Italian merchants buy Chinese silk Indian spices from?
What did Italians do with the Chinese silk and Indian spices they bought?
Where did Italians sell Chinese silk and Indian spices for very high prices?
What did Italian merchants buy in Europe?
Where did Italian merchants send the items they bought in Europe?
Why did Italian artisans buy raw materials and made goods?
What was the first event that helped Italians succeed in trade?
What did the conflicts of the Crusades bring Italian merchants into contact with?
What was the second event that helped Italians succeed in trade?
What did Mongol conquests do?
What did Mongols do along the Silk Road?
What was the result of the Mongols protecting trade along the Silk Road?
As a result of the Mongols protecting trade along the Silk Road, trade was easier and cheap for caravans to carry goods between _______________________________
What happened as more silk and spices were sent from Asia?
What happened as more Europeans paid for luxuries?
Where did Marco Polo travel in the 1270s with his father and uncle?
What was the goal of Marco Polo?
What was the emperor amazed by when the Polo family reached the Khan's court?
Where did Kublai send Marco Polo?
What did Marco Polo do after returning to Europe?
Who did Marco Polo's stories amaze?
Who wanted to buy Chinese goods after hearing about Polo's stories?
What city was the first major center of the Renaissance
What did the wealth and central location of Florence attract?
Where is Florence located?
Why was Florence surrounded by walls with tall towers?
What was soaring about Florence?
Who completed the dome above the city of Florence?
What was considered to be the greatest engineering achievement of the time in 1436?
How did Florence gain its wealth?
How did the citizens of Florence make money?
What happened as goods poured into Italy from abroad?
What did Florentine bankers use to measure the value of other money?
What is florin?
Who was the wealthiest family in Florence?
Who owned the largest bank In Europe during the 1400s?
The Medici had brach banks or other offices as far away as __________________
Another leading Renaissance city was _____________
Where was Venice located?
What was Venice built on?
Why did Venetians drive long wooden poles into mud>
What did Venetians do instead of paving roads?
During the Renaissance Venice became an important link between _________________________________
Venetian merchants, such as Marco Polo, traveled abroad and _______________________________
Which city was known as a major shipbuilding center?
Where did teams of workers build wooden ships and made sails and oars?
Wealthy merchants and bankers in Italian city-states formed _________________________
How did nobles in Europe gain their wealth before the Renaissance?
Where did old noble families move in Italy?
What did old noble families in cities become?
What did urban nobles form with wealthy merchants?
Merchants began to adopt the customs of the ___________________
What became the upper class of the city-states?
Many Italian city-states beagn as ___________________
What is a republic?
Not all people in an Italian city-state were ________________________
Who did citizenship belong to?
Who was given power during a war or revolt in ancient Rome?
What was a dictator?
What did Italian city-states rely on to run the government?
Some dictators ruled ________________
What did dictators use to keep control?
What did dictators do to win support?
Who was the ruler of Venice?
Who ran the city of Venice?
Who held the real power in the city of Venice?
What did the council of wealthy merchants do?
Who controlled the government in Florence for many years?
Who governed Florence from 1469 to 1492?
What did Lorenzo de' Medici use his wealth to support?
What was Lorenzo known as a result of Florence's prosperity and fame?
Political affairs in Ital were _____________
What did rulers have to put down?
What did rulers have to prevent?
What did rulers have to keep good relations with?
What did Italians do to deal with neighboring states?
What did Italians work towards?
Who wrote The Prince in 1513?
What is The Prince about?
In The Prince, Machiavelli stated that _______________________