Ch 3

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European merchants knew they could make a lot of money

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selling goods from Asia.

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From Asia, people wanted to buy

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spices, perfumes, silks, and precious stones.

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European merchants wanted to find a different route to the East. This was because they ...

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did not want to pay high prices to Arab merchants

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Italian cities that became wealthy were

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Pisa, Venice, and Genoa.

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The newly powerful merchant class in Italy studied the classical works of

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ancient Greece and Rome.

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The period of great intellectual creativity and discovery is called

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the Renaissance.

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Renaissance means

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"rebirth."

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It spread throughout ______ over the next two centuries.

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Europe

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This era set the stage for an age of

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exploration and discovery.

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By the 1400s, strong ________ rose to power in Western Europe.

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monarchs