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| This is what happened to Europe's Economy after the black death. |
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| Europe’s economy began to grow again from peasants working for money and using abandoned farm products |
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| Prices went down, trade increased and new products became available because of this. |
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| More goods became available |
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| The Silk Road declined because of the fall of these two governments: |
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| The Han Dynasty and the Roman Empire |
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| Which empire took over and made the Silk Road safer for travelers like Marco Polo? |
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| The Mongols took over the silk road and protected travelers |
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| What were the 4 major trading cities of Italy? |
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| Genoa, Venice, Milan, Florence |
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| What happened upon the return of Marco Polo to Europe? |
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| Trade increased with Asia and new products were introduced |
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| What were the two major roles of these trade centers? |
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| When one rich,powerful family ruled the government |
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| How did the Medici family make it’s money? |
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| Banking, holding money for the Italian merchants |
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| What did the Medici's do with this money? |
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| Build libraries and schools, beautify Florence |
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| Florence became the center of what |
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| What does the word “Renaissance” mean? |
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| What subjects are included under the humanities? |
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| Art, literature, history, music |
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| The study of human abilities and the humanities. |
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| Were humanists also religious like their Middle Age ancestors? |
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| How did the classical works get to Italy from the Eastern Mediterrenean and the Byzantine Empire? |
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| Scholars took the works in their suitcases as they left the Empire |
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| What two ancient civilizations did Italian Renaissance thinkers study and try to copy? |
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| Name two Italian Writers and their most famous works: |
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Dante Aligheri: The Divine Comedy
Machiavelli: The Prince |
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| How did Renaissance paintings change from the Middle Age paintings (hint: perspective)? |
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| Paintings, showed a more three dimensional image on a two dimensional surface |
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| Name the two Renaissance men, or masters (we watched brain pop movies on them to start the chapter). Name one of their pieces of work for each person |
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Michelangelo: Statue of David
Leonardo Da Vinci: Mona Lisa |
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| Who invented the printing press? |
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| What happened because of the increase of the availability of the Bible? |
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| An increase of people that could read and became literate |
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| What subjects were put together to make Christian humanism? |
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| How was Northern renaissance paintings different from Italian Renaissance paintings? |
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| Showed every day people, not roman and greek gods |
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| What book did Miguel de Cervantes write? |
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| Name one famous work of William Shakespeare: |
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