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WorksheetsURBAN HISTORY
Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 18mins
Where did the Medieval Nobles live?
In a castle on the manor
Cities
In the kings house
In a knights manor
Where did Renaissance Nobles live?
Cities
In a castle on the manor
With the knights
With the kings
Why did the Renaissance begin in Italy? (Choose all of the correct answers)
Italy had been the center of the Roman Empire and interested in Greek and Roman art
Italy’s cities have become very wealthy and enabled them to pay artists
The region was divided into many small city-states and most of them were important cities of the Renaissance
The king forced artists to come to Italy after he conquered most of Europe
What type of planning did the City of Priene have?
Grid Iron
Organic
Radial
What did the Harappans use to build with?
Mud & sand
Fire baked bricks
Wood
Leaves
What other city formed on the same river as the Harappan?
Mohenjo-Daro
Harappa
Delhi
Mumbai
How were the roads arranged?
There was no arrangement
Triangular patterns
In circles
The roads were arranged into a series of grid-systems.
THE LATE MEDIEVAL PERIOD SPANS FROM
13TH TO 18TH CENTURY
8TH TO 12TH CENTURY
10TH TO 19TH CENTURY
20TH TO 21TH CENTURY
Cathedrals were important to cities for all of the following reasons EXCEPT...
increased importance of city
attracted religious pilgrims
improved the economy
made the king more important than the CHurch
This image displays which castle defensive features?
turrets
outer wall
portcullis
murder holes
A castle might be surrounded by a moat. What is a moat?
a ditch often filled with water
a jagged hill with caves
a mound of dirt
a wooden fence
Natural Determinants for Ancient Greek city development?
topography,climate,land
topography,water,land
topography,climate,construction material
water,land,climate
cities emerged as separate city states, instead of a single unified nation.
The disperse nature of fertile area was only available in form of isolated valley,
plains and plateau.
These conditions favored an arrangement of :
urban nucleas
surrounded by countryside
surrounded by agricultural land
ports
Greek contribution to city planning
colonizing movement
connecting roads
Urban form components
grid iron planning
The invention of formal city planning was attributed to (a) of Miletus
Name any two planned cities of Greek civilization?
(a)
