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Who did trade increase with

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India China and other areas on the east

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Why did prices go down

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More goods became available

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What is the silk Road

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A trading route that started in China and ended at the Mediterranean Sea

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Who took over China in the 1200s

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The Mongols

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Who is the person that was the first European to write the description of coal

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Marco Polo

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When people read Marco Polo’s descriptions what did the people white

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Goods from Asia

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What were the four trading centers

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Florence Genoa Milan and Venice

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What was one important feature that Genoa and Venice shared

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Mediterranean Sea

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In the 1300s what was Italy made up of

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Independent states

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What would Italian merchant families fight for

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Fame and power

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Florence was an example of what

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Trade and wealth

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Who was the greatest banker in Florence

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The Medici family

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What is renaissance mean

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Rebirth

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What did the Renaissance people have an interest in

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Greek and Roman writing

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What did the study in the Renaissance age

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Humanities

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What did they study Amy humanities

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History, Literature, public speaking, and art

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What did they have a new interest in

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Ancient history

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Architects and artists were inspired by the and tried to mimic buildings in arts from this time.

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Classical age

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Who is Dante Allighieri

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A poet in politician

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Who wrote The Prince

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Niccolo Machiavelli

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Art in the Renaissance was made to look like what

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Realistic/realism

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What is perspective

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A technique that artists use in which people in the background are smaller use of diagonal lines and colors do you show distance to make the image look three dimensional

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Who is Rafael

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He shows personalities through art

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Who is Botticelli

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He showed scenes from Roman myths

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Who was titian

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He painted scenes from classical myths; colorful scenes from Christian painting

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Who were the two masters or universal men

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Michelangelo, and Leonardo da Vinci

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What did Brunelleschi do

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He found a way to build a dome supported by the walls of the cathedral

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What is Petrarch

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The stress and importance of learning history which effect did education for many years

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What help spread the new Ideas

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Printing and paper

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What was the first book to be from printed

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The Bible

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The blending of humanities and religious ideas is called what

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Christian humanism

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What did desiderius Erasmus emphasize

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Devotion to God

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Holbein and van eyck were

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Portrait painters

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Who was William Shakespeare

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The playwrite of all time

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Why are Venice and Genoa important?

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Port cities on the Mediterranean Sea/ carried goods

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What did the printing press do for the renissance

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Makes knowledge creeper which ment that it spread more like the internet

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What did the Mongol ascendancy provide for

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Mongols controlled all of Central Asia which meant they controlled Asia through China which meant they controlled the silk Road and they send Marco Polo to write the descriptions of different things in that area and carried it back to Europe

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Cosimo Medici and his characteristic

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Rich banker religious man loved literature art spent money on books and art

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What book did Dante write

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Devine Comidy written in Italian the vernacular language

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What was perspective

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Renissance art technique people looked three dimensional included mathematical things and shadowing shade etc.

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What happens with supply and demand with trade and prices

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More something prices fall trade increases

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How did the renaissance spread

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Universities printing press women marring and wanted things from Italy

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Who was Leonardo da Vinci

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Renissance man good at lots of things

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How was the humanism in Europe different from the things in Italy

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Northern Europe = conservative Christians/ Christian humanism

Italy was not even close to being the same

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How did Brunelleschi build this dome

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Mathematics and plans

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How was the Middle Ages different from the renissance age

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Middle Ages focused on religion mostly

Renissance was religion and humanism

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What was the focus of the renissance

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Greek/ roman = grekoroman and change slowly

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What was map making like

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It was a cycle trading=ships=traveling=people making maps= all over again

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What did the bible translation into the venacular language lead to

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People wanted to learn how to read/ learn it also led to breaks in the Catholic Church

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What was Petrarch’s ideas based on

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Interested in history and education which inspired people to learn

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The Turks invasion of the Byzantine empire led to what

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Spur in the renissance age religion education spices good things

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Northern Europe and Italian art was different why?

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Every day life

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