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What did cartography achieve?

Exploration of the new world

Who was Francesco Petrarch?

A humanist scholar

1 answer

Why was literature popular during the Renaissance?

More people could read, it was written in the vernacular, the printing press made books popular

3 answers

What made the Medici family wealthy?

banking

What did Marco Polo's book do?

it encouraged trade with China

Why did the Renaissance begin in Italy?


Italy was rich, the city-states competed with each other, and the Roman ruins were inspirational


3 answers


How was the art in Northern Europe different from the art in Italy?


Renaissance artists turned to Roman and Greek works for inspiration

What did Michelangelo paint?

the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel

Why were Venetians great shipbuilders?

their city was built on a swampy islands

Who was Leonardo da Vinci?




an Italian scientist and artist

2 answers


gondolas

long, narrow boats used for transport in Venice

secular

more interested in this world than in religion



Petrarch



famous poet and scholar of ancient Roman works

2 answers



Sandro Botticelli

a Florence artist who painted frescoes


1 answer



William Shakespeare



English playwright who wrote tragedies and comedies

1 answer


Renaissance

a time of rebirth of interest in art and learning



Dante Alighieri



wrote the Divine Comedy

Writer

chiaroscuro
an artistic technique using light and shadows to soften edges
oil painting

developed in Flanders

Mongol Empire

united Asia into a vast trade network



Miguel de Cervantes

wrote Don Quixote de la Mancha

Writer

Johannes Gutenburg

developed a printing press with movable metal type



Niccolo Machiavelli



author of The Prince

Writer

Leonardo da Vinci


a great scientist and artist


2 answers

humanism

emphasized a balance between faith and reason

fresco

a painting done with watercolors on wet plaster



Why did Florence grow wealthy?

through trade and banking


2 answers

Which two groups made up the urban nobility?

wealthy merchants and nobility