Chapter 2

Question 1

Silk Road

Answer 1

A name for routes that connected civilizations from the Mediterranean in the west to the Pacific Ocean in the east

Question 2

Crusades

Answer 2

A Christian military expedition

Question 3

Physical Geography

Answer 3

The feature of Earth’s surface

Question 4

Human Geography

Answer 4

Related to people and their activities

Question 5

City-State

Answer 5

A politically independent city and the rural area or hinterland around it

Question 6

Hinterland

Answer 6

The rural area around a city-state

Question 7

Usary

Answer 7

The practice of charging interest when loaning money to someone

Question 8

Ciompi

Answer 8

‘wool carders’ had high unemployment so they wanted to create their own guild (denied by government) and called for an uprising of the lower class [Revolted in Florence]

Question 9

Republic

Answer 9

a state in which power is held by the people

Question 10

Marco Polo

Answer 10

An Italian merchant who traveled the silk road

Question 11

Italy

Answer 11

a collection of city-states

Question 12

What were the Crusades?

Answer 12

a series of military conflicts between Christian Europe and the Islamic middle east

Question 13

Who ordered the Crusades and why?

Answer 13

Pope Urban II. To drive out the Muslims on the land of Palestine

Question 14

What are 3 difficulties of transportation of goods?

Answer 14

1) Expensive
2) Moved by horses, mules, etc.; not cars, wooden ships could easily be damaged
3) took a long time; large distances

Question 15

Why were spices so expensive during the middle ages?

Answer 15

Improved the taste of Europeans’ food and spices were used in cosmetics, drugs and perfumes –> people don’t bathe often so they use perfume a lot. Pepper was worth more than its weight in gold.

Question 16

Why were most cities built on a major river?

Answer 16

Transportation by water was much cheaper and easier for traders

Question 17

How does geography effect the way we live and the quality of our life?

Answer 17

• access to resources

- access to trade routes

Question 18

What are the 4 factors in the success of a city-state?

Answer 18

1) Geography
2) Climate
3) Leadership
4) Social Organization

Question 19

Explain usary

Answer 19

When you take out a loan, every month you get charged a percentage on what you haven’t paid back

Question 20

How was the Medici family was important to the Renaissance

Answer 20

• They held important political positions
• They sponsored the arts
• They were wealthy
• They ruled Florence

Question 21

How did increase trade and contact with other countries effect people’s worldviews?

Answer 21

More than goods were passed along the Silk Road, intercultural contact led to exchanges of ideas and knowledge as well

Question 22

Why were the prices of goods shipped from India and Africa high?

Answer 22

They were goods you couldn’t get in Europe and were luxury and sought after; high demand and far away

Question 23

What was the Silk Road? Who used it and Why?

Answer 23

A major trade route from the Mediterranean (W) to the Pacific Ocean (E)

Question 24

What was the quantity and quality of foods like off of the Silk Road?

Answer 24

high quality, low quantity