Chapter 11: The Renaissance Study Guide
Causes of the Renaissance
 Crusades – Black Death – Trade – Silk Road – Marco Polo
Development of Trade Cities in Italy
 Type of Government – industry
 Pay special attention to Florence: banking, interest, the Medicis, the
arts
Humanism and Connecting to the Classical Age
Writers
 Petrarch – Dante – Machiavelli – Erasmus – Cervantes – Rabelais –
Shakespeare
Artists
 perspective – Leonardo da Vinci – Michelangelo – Botticelli – Titian –
Rafael – Brueghel – Dürer – Holbein – van Eyck
Science and Education
 Mathematics – Engineering and Architecture (Brunelleschi) – Astronomy
and Cartography – How education changed
The Printing Press
Scholarship in the North
Art in the North
Literature in the North
There will be short answer questions, so be able to articulate your ideas in writing. There are also
multiple choice, matching, and fill in the blank questions.
Chapter 11: The Renaissance Study Guide
Causes of the Renaissance
 Crusades – Black Death – Trade – Silk Road – Marco Polo
Development of Trade Cities in Italy
 Type of Government – industry
 Pay special attention to Florence: banking, interest, the Medicis, the
arts
Humanism and Connecting to the Classical Age
Writers
 Petrarch – Dante – Machiavelli – Erasmus – Cervantes – Rabelais –
Shakespeare
Artists
 perspective – Leonardo da Vinci – Michelangelo – Botticelli – Titian –
Rafael – Brueghel – Dürer – Holbein – van Eyck
Science and Education
 Mathematics – Engineering and Architecture (Brunelleschi) – Astronomy
and Cartography – How education changed
The Printing Press
Scholarship in the North
Art in the North
Literature in the North
There will be short answer questions, so be able to articulate your ideas in writing. There are also
multiple choice, matching, and fill in the blank questions.