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Where did it begin

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Italy, Florence

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How much did it last

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250 Years

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What are called the classicals

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The roman and Greek’s beliefs

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Was a man of many talents: inventor, painter, mathematician….
Mention two of his most famous paintings

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Leonardo da Vinci
La Mona Lisa
The last supper

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Influenced the western art
Painter and sculptor
Famous for the David and the Sistine chapel

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Michelangelo

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A philosophy that emphasized the dignity and worth of the individual

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Humanism

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What is toll

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The numbers

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What are wages

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Money that is payed for the work you did

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Roman Empire and hall dynasty fell the soldiers didn’t protect ….
What was the result

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Travelers and traders

The Silk Road declined

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Who took over China and made the roads safe again

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The mongols

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Family from Venice who traveled to china

The name of the famous son

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The polos

Marco Polo

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What did Marco Polo found in China

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Paper money and coal used for fuel

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Who did Marco Polo met

And what happened

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The mongol emperor kublai khan

They stayed in his court later he made Marco a government official

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Marco Polo recorded his journeys how did this affected the society

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The Europeans became curious and the trade grew again

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What were the 4 major trading center in Italy

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Florence, Venice, Milan, and genoa

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The amount you pay for a service

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Fee

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Money given to someone for a period of time then it’s returned

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Loan

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18
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Each city specialized in something:
Milan?
Venice?
Florence?

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M- weapons and silk
V- glass
F- weaving wool into cloth

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What made Florence very rich

Name the family

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Banking

The Medicis

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What is interest

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It was a fee that lenders charge people who borrow money from them

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In most or Italian cities a single……… Controlled the government. The head of the ….. Pruned the city.
In Florence the head of the Medici was

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A single rich family
Family
Cosimo de’ Medici

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Cosimo hired ….. To decorate and redesign Florence

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Artists and architects

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Cosimo built many ….. Because he was interested in …….

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Libraries

Education

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The renaissance was a time of

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Rebirth and reinvention of learning and thinking

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The renaissance revived the interest in…

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Literature, art and human individuals

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Latin was the language of

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The scholars

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27
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Subjects that explore human activities rather than physical world or God

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The humanities

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Humanism is

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The way of thinking and learning that stresses the importance of human abilities and actions

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Poet and writer that wrote in Italian because he considered it as good as Latin.

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Dante

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Italian writer and politician who wrote the prince which give advice to rulers of how they should rule

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Niccolo machiavelli

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Why did scholars moved to Italy

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Because the Turks invaded the Byzantine empire

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Works by geeks and Romans are called

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Classicals

33
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What is lagoon

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Shallow body of water separated from a larger body of water by a sandbar or reef

34
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Why was Venice a safe place

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Because enemy ships couldn’t move in their canals also because they had a strong navy

35
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How are the people from Venice called

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Venetians

36
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How was Venice so wealthy

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By trade

They didn’t try to gain territory but they tried to maintain the trade

37
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Venetian traders purchased products from the Far East for example

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Herbs spices and dyes

38
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Venetian traders purchased products from the Middle East like

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Cotton silks and silver goods

39
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Venetian traders offered products like

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Glass textiles and jewelry

40
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Flat bottomed ships from the venetians

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Galleys

41
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Venice conquered territories from the north west like

Which provided

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Padua and Verona

Safety for merchants that were traveling to Germany

42
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The …… Forced Venice to pay a ……. Fee if they wanted to trade in their ports

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Turks

Yearly

43
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Alliance from ….., ……., ……, and ……. Forces headed by Pope …….. …. Recaptured the Italian territories from Venice

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Italian 
German
French
Spanish 
Julius II
44
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Within a few years Venice …….

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Recovered the territories by great financial and human cost

45
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Venice wasn’t a ….. And it was controlled by…..

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Monarchy

Leading families

46
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The head of the government was called

But the real power was in

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Doge

The greater council which included a senate and the committee

47
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Only ……. Could be in the greater council

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Descendants from men who had been in it before these families were written in the Book of Gold (only 200)

48
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Tall column put into the ground to support a building

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Pillar

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Patron

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Person who supports financially a project

50
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2 important Venetian buildings

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Basilica of st mark and palace of doges

51
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Venice had more than 200

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Printing presses

52
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Scholars printed and published

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Classical manuscripts

53
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Famous painter that was brought to Venice at the age of 10 to study other artists
Noticed by the appeal of the emotions and senses
Name his most famous painting

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Tiziano vecelli or titian

The assumption of the virgin

54
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Titian’s patron

He was famous because

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Holy Roman Emperor Charles V

Once titian dropped his paint brush and the emperor picked it up for him

55
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Who visited aldus Manutius in Venice

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Erasmus

56
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How were Renaissance artists different from medieval ones

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The were more realistic and used depth in their paintings

Very often people looked as perfect as greek gods in their paintings

57
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Technique that showed the depth and distance on a flat surface in their paintings

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Perspective

58
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Michelangelo was famous for

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Painting the ceiling of the Sistine chapel

59
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Painter sculptor inventor engineer town planner map maker….. And famous for?

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Leonardo da Vinci

The Mona Lisa and the last supper

60
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What did scientists thinks about mathematics

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That they helped understand the universe

61
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Name 3 important math discoveries during the renaissance

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Positive numbers
Negative numbers
Square root

62
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How did architects and engineers used mathematics

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They used them to design wats to strengthen buildings

63
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Learn about stars planets and the sun

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Astronomy

64
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Who was Petrarch

MFW?

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A scholar who warned about ignoring history.

Canzoniere (Italian poetry)

65
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3 ways of how the renaissance spread

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By travelers and artists
The printing press and paper
Universities

66
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Who was the astronomer who discovered that the earth……

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Nicolas Copernicus

The earth revolves around the sun

67
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Where did paper making started

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China

68
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What did paper replaced and why

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Processed animal skins

Because it was cheaper and easier to prepare

69
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Who invented the printing press with movable type

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Johann Gutenberg

70
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Gutenberg printed the ….. in ……

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Bible

Latin

71
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Painter who studied anatomy to paint people more realistically
MFW?

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Albrecht Durer 
His prints (work of art that is reproduced from an original)
72
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Who was a Spanish writer which was famous for writing in his own language
He was also a…..
MFW?

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Miguel de Cervantes
Soldier
Don Quixote

73
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Greatest English writer?

Known for his poetry but more famous for his …..

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William shakespeare

Plays

74
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Why was william so famous?

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Because he invented common phrases and common words

75
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Who was Erasmus

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A Dutch priest who critiqued the clergy and got rid of meaningless rituals

76
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To make changes to improve

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Reform

77
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Indulgences

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certificate of pardon for sins

78
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State after death between heaven and hell

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Purgatory

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