CHAPTER 11

The Renaissance

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1. What were the 4 great city-states of Italy in the 1300s?

1. Milan, Genoa, Venice, and FLORENCE

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2. Who was the greatest banking family in Florence?

2. The Medici Family

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3. What were some characteristics of Florence?

3. Italian art, literature, and culture

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4. The city of Florence’s love of art and education helped begin what?

4. The Renaissance

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5. What was the Renaissance?

5. Period of “rebirth” and creativity that followed the Middle Ages

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6. During the Renaissance, what was being “reborn”?

6. Learning and ArtGreek and

Roman ideas

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7. Who was Michelangelo?

7. Renaissance artist Artist and Sculptor Painted the ceiling

of the Sistine Chapel

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8. Who was Leonardo da Vinci?

8. THE Renaissance Man Painter, Sculptor,

Architect, Engineer, Inventor

Mona Lisa, Last Supper

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9. Who was Dante Alighieri?

9. First to write in the vernacular

(common language-Italian)Wrote The Divine

Comedy Dante’s Inferno

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10. Who was Niccolo Machiavelli?

10. Wrote The Prince Gave leaders

advice on how to rule

Better to be feared than loved

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11. Who was William Shakespeare?

11. Wrote many poems and over 30 playsRomeo and

JulietHamlet Julius Caesar

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12. Who was Johann Gutenberg?

12. Created the Printing Press Movable Type

Increased LiteracySpread Ideas