Chapter 2 Influence of the Trades during the Renaissance

A Christian Military expedition.

• Crusade
• Jihad
• Pilgrimage
• Inquisition

Features which are related to people and their activities.

• Personnel
• Labor
• Staffing
• Human Geography

A politically independent city  and the rural area or hinterland around it.

• Metropolis
• Megacity
• Megalopolis
• City-States

The rural (country) area around a city-state.

• Urban
• Metropolitan
• Hinterland

• City

A practice of charging interest when loaning money to someone.

• Usury

• investing with interest
• repaying with interest
• borrowing with interest

One of the first Travelers of the Silk Road.

• Marco Polo
• Genghis Khan
• Christopher Columbus
• Zhang Qian

Part of Florence's most important cultural and political life for more than 300 years. Made their Fortune as wool and silk merchants and bankers.

• Borgia family
• Sforza family
• Pazzi family
• Medici family

The Renaissance did not spread into the rest of Europe until the end of the 15th Century because...

• It originated in Italy and took time to reach other regions.
• Other European countries were not interested in the cultural and intellectual changes of the Renaissance.
• There were no means of communication between Italy and other European countries.
• The Renaissance was not considered important by other European countries.

What mountain range is located in Italy?

• The mountain range located in Italy is the Rockies.
• The mountain range located in Italy is the Apennines.
• The mountain range located in Italy is the Himalayas.
• The mountain range located in Italy is the Alps.

Italy dominates the sea trade in what body of water?

• The Black Sea

• The Mediterranean Sea

• The Arctic Sea

• The Atlantic