The Italian Renaissance

Trade increased with ______________, bringing great wealth to Italian cities.

• Africa

• Asia

• Europe

• North America

The wealth from ____________________ also helped promote, or support, the ideas and arts of the Renaissance.

• painting

• printing

• churches

• banking

a network of trade routes that stretched across Asia from China to the Mediterranean Sea

• Trans-Saharan Route

• Venice Road

• Silk Road

• Merchant's Path

inventor of the printing press

• John Calvin

• Niccolo Machiavelli

• Cosimo de Medici

• Johann Gutenburg

The Italian city of ______________________ was the birthplace of the Renaissance.

• Florence

• Milan

• Naples

• Genoa

Sponsors, or __________________, used their wealth to help artists produce great works of art.

• humanists

• patrons

• protestants

• scientists

_____________________ means rebirth and is the time period that came after the Middle Ages.

• Reformation

• Colonization

• Reconstruction

• Renaissance

_____________________ emphasized, or stressed, individual potential and was a movement to celebrate human abilities and actions.

• Catholicism

• humanism

• patriotism

• Protestantism

Renaissance artists and architects developed a renewed interest in classical culture. Which TWO civilizations represent the classical cultures that they wanted to study?

• India

• Greece

• China

• Rome

Which of the following were ways that the printing press impacted life in Europe? Choose all that apply.

• Books could be printed faster.

• More people could afford books.

• Ideas about science and exploration spread quickly.

• More people learned to read.

• The Bible became increasingly available.