WorksheetsL33-3 Renaissance and Italian City-States Quiz
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
Why did the Renaissance begin in northern and central Italy?
The presence of powerful monarchs who insisted on more Medieval paintings of Jesus
The trade, wealth, and sponsoring of learning by the Italian city-states
The influence of feudal lords
The dominance of the Catholic Church
How were Italian city-states different from most of Western Europe during the Late Middle Ages?
They were ruled by nobles and monarchs
They had no system of government: just pure chaos
They were ruled by wealthy merchant families
They were controlled by foreign powers
Which powerful family gained long-term control of Florence?
The Medici family
The Borgia family
The Sforza family
The Pazzi family
What made Italian city-states particularly wealthy?
Agriculture and farming
Military conquests
Religious donations
Trade and commercial banking
How did wealthy families contribute to the Renaissance in Italian city-states?
By building armies
By funding art and learning
By expanding territories
By developing agriculture
Florence, Milan, Rome were all Italian ____________ during the Renaissance
Frescos
Humanisms
City States
Architects
Which of these is NOT an Italian city of the Renaissance?
Genoa
Venice
Paris
Milan
Italian city-states were
wealthy due to trade and location
democracies
part of the Holy Roman Empire
all of these
What is a major reason why the Renaissance began in northern and central Italy?
Nobles there led the Crusades.
Peasants there never learned to read and stayed on their manor all the days of their life
Italian City States
became wealthy and sponsored a re-birth of classical learning
Kings there fought one another.
Wealthy bankers would sponsor an artist's painting to be made hoping that they could sell it for more. These bankers can be thought of like Ryan Reynolds today who just sponsored a soccer team or a modern-day investor who sponsors a movie hoping it will be successful and make him money.
True
False
