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What did cartography achieve? |
Exploration of the new world |
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Who was Francesco Petrarch? |
A humanist scholar |
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Why was literature popular during the Renaissance? |
More people could read, it was written in the vernacular, the printing press made books popular |
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What made the Medici family wealthy?
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banking |
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What did Marco Polo's book do?
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it encouraged trade with China |
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Why did the Renaissance begin in Italy?
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Italy was rich, the city-states competed with each other, and the Roman ruins were inspirational
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How was the art in Northern Europe different from the art in Italy? |
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What did Michelangelo paint?
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the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel |
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Why were Venetians great shipbuilders? |
their city was built on a swampy islands |
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Who was Leonardo da Vinci?
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an Italian scientist and artist |
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gondolas |
long, narrow boats used for transport in Venice |
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secular |
more interested in this world than in religion |
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Petrarch |
famous poet and scholar of ancient Roman works |
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Sandro Botticelli |
a Florence artist who painted frescoes
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William Shakespeare |
English playwright who wrote tragedies and comedies |
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Renaissance |
a time of rebirth of interest in art and learning |
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Dante Alighieri |
wrote the Divine Comedy |
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chiaroscuro
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an artistic technique using light and shadows to soften edges
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oil painting
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developed in Flanders |
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Mongol Empire |
united Asia into a vast trade network |
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Miguel de Cervantes |
wrote Don Quixote de la Mancha |
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Johannes Gutenburg
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developed a printing press with movable metal type |
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Niccolo Machiavelli |
author of The Prince |
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Leonardo da Vinci
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a great scientist and artist
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humanism
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emphasized a balance between faith and reason |
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fresco |
a painting done with watercolors on wet plaster |
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Why did Florence grow wealthy? |
through trade and banking
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Which two groups made up the urban nobility?
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wealthy merchants and nobility |
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