Renaissance Chapter 2

Which statement BEST describes a city-state?

• An independent region ruled by a powerful city

• A powerful city that is part of a larger country

• A powerful city that is part of a larger state

• All of the above

The wealth of the Italian city-states played an important part in the development of the Renaissance.

• True

• False

Florence, Milan, Rome were all Italian ____________ during the Renaissance

• Frescos

• Humanisms

• City States

• Architects

Which was a key intellectual movement or philosophy of the Renaissance?

• Humanism

• City State

• Cultural relativism

• Behavioralism

What does the word Renaissance translate to?

• Rebirth

• New Born

• Secular

• Dowry

The Silk Road was what?

• One road that was the color of silk. 
• A network of roads used for trading.
• A road that only silk was traded on.
• The name of the first road in Asia. 

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

CCSS.RI.5.5

What disease began on the Silk Road that devastated parts of the world?

• Chicken Pox
• Flu
• Dehydration 
• Bubonic Plague (Black Plague)

Which product was NOT exchanged on the Silk Road?

• silk
• plastic
• exotic animals
• silver

The Crusades closed trade routes between the Muslim East and Christian West.

• True

• False

What group's conquest of Jerusalem caused the start of the Crusades?

• Seljuk Turks

• Fatimid Arabs

• Byzantine Empire

• Roman Rebels