Renaissance-Ch2 Vocab

Define:  City-states

• The capital city of a country.
• A politically independent city and the rural area or hinterland around it. 
• Divisions within cities.
• A politically non-independent city and the rural area or hinterland around it.

What is the term for the following:
◦"The rural area around a city-state."

• Rural-land
• Suburbs
• Hinterland
• No idea land

What is the term for:
"Name given to routes that connected civilizations from the Mediterranean in the west to Pacific Ocean in the east. Trade goods, ideas, and knowledge were exchanged along these routes."

• Crusade routes
• Trade routes
• Silk Road
• East India Trading Route

What is the term for:
"A person who pays artists to produce works."

• Commission
• Patron
• Pagan
• Artist supporter

What is:
"An order or duty given to a person or group of people to produce something (e.g., a building, a work of art)."

• Patron
• Commission
• Duty
• Hiring

What is the term for:
"A collection of beliefs about life and the universe held by an individual or a group; the overall perspective from which one sees and interprets the world."

• Perspective
• Point of view
• Worldview 
• Beliefs

What is the term for:
◦Someone that makes money by purchasing goods in one place and then selling them for a higher price in another place.

• Trader
• Merchant
• Bank
• I have no idea

What is:
◦The practice of charging interest when loaning money to someone.

• Usury
• Sumptuary law
• Demand
• Loan

◦Countries ruled by a king or queen are......

• republics
• monarchies
• oligarchies
• famous

◦A state in which power is held by the people.

• country
• city-state
• republic
• monarchies