Assessment Chapter 19 Section 1

Caravan trade route from China to the Mediterranean Sea

• Silk Road

• Dante Alighieri

• Florence

• humanism

• interest

Trader from Venice who traveled from Europe to China

• Marco Polo

• Dante Alighieri

• Florence

• humanism

• interest

Fee that lenders charge people who borrow money from them

• interest

• Dante Alighieri

• Florence

• humanism

• Kublai Khan

Family of bankers in Florence

• Medici

• Dante Alighieri

• Florence

• humanism

• interest

Means “rebirth” and refers to the period that followed Europe’s Middle Ages

• Renaissance

• Dante Alighieri

• Florence

• humanism

• interest

A way of thinking and learning that stresses the importance of human abilities and actions

• humanism

• Dante Alighieri

• Florence

• interest

• Kublai Khan

Writer, politician, and poet, first to write in Italian, the language of the people

• Dante Alighieri

• Florence

• humanism

• interest

• Kublai Khan

Italian writer of The Prince, believed rulers sometimes had to be ruthless to keep order

• Niccolo Machiavelli

• Dante Alighieri

• Florence

• humanism

• interest

Great master that painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican

• Michelangelo

• Dante Alighieri

• Florence

• humanism

• interest

Wealthy northern Italian city, famous for wool trade and banking

• Florence

• Dante Alighieri

• humanism

• interest

• Kublai Khan