The Renaissance

These soldiers fought for the Italian city-state that offered the highest pay.

This plague spread killed as much as 1/3 of Europe's population during the 1300s.

This wealthy family served as the unofficial rulers of Florence for hundreds of years.

Culture that grows in cities rather than the countryside.

This Renaissance city was built over hundreds of small islands off the Adriatic coast of Italy.

This city was the first major center of the Renaissance.

Residents of this Renaissance city traveled by canal instead of roads.

This "Renaissance Man" was a master artist and inventor (kind of) of thousands of machines.

Controversial pope who was involved in the attempted assassination of the Medici brothers

This political theorist taught that it was better for a ruler to be feared than to be loved

This Renaissance city gained its wealth from making and trading cloth made from English wool.

Who actually held most of the power in Renaissance Italy?

Most Italian city-states practiced this form of democracy (at least on paper...).

This German inventor created the printing press.

This is the belief in the worth of individuals and that reason is the path to knowledge.

The most famous unofficial dictator of the city-state of Florence; almost assassinated

French word meaning "rebirth"; describes the era in which Europe rediscovered art and education

This Italian noble was the mastermind behind the attempted assassination of the Medici brothers

This port city was Renaissance Italy's primary link to Asia.

This concept was used by artists like da Vinci to make their art more realistic