Social Renaissance 2

Question 1

Hinterland

Answer 1

Rural area surrounding city-states

Question 2

Commerce

Answer 2

Activity of buying/selling

Question 3

Usury

Answer 3

Lenders of money charged interest on loans

Question 4

Jerusalem

Answer 4

Holy land
-Trading hub

Question 5

Crusades

Answer 5

-War declared by Pope Urban 2nd to claim holy lands in 1095 to increase trade & spread religoun
-Religion convinced christians to fight for absolution

Question 6

Northern Italy

Answer 6

-One of wealthiest city’s in Europe
-Geography made transporting goods from ports cheap & easy
-Trade & travel was not affected by its climate
-Had non monarch leadership(controlled its own affairs)
-Social organization where nobles moved into towns where they were upper class

Question 7

Venice & Genoa

Answer 7

-Were in competition/small battles
-Venice was a successful trading centre with east and Europe’s largest ship building centre
-Genoa never regained power

Question 8

Commerce in City-States

Answer 8

-Buying & selling of products & services made lots of money
-Guilds set up by rich merchants maintained control of economy
-Bankers practiced usury
-Church was initially opposed to encouraging investment but later allowed interest over loans that involved risks

Question 9

Black Death Effects

Answer 9

-Italy went into depression (death of milions)
-People questioned faith & were more critical to church
-Believed with help of church they could reach heaven after death (religion was essential)
-Caused growth of culture in Italy
-After 1500’s economic slump was over and merchants & bankers grew in wealth cause of trade & commerce

Question 10

Advantages of Trade

Answer 10

-Financially beneficial
-Lower prices on goods, easier access to markets for own products & goods, no need to pay for ship services cause of access to trade routes

Question 10

Silk Road

Answer 10

-Network of trade routes
-Mainly silk & spice traded (social status symbol)
-Spread disease, culture, & ideas (philosophy, religion, economics, politics)

Question 10

Cause & Effect

Answer 10

Contact with east in crusades = increased materialism & desire for luxury goods
Growth of merchant class = increased wealth & power for merchants
Areas were rich with resources that could be sold = communities added foreign good in local production

Question 10

Church Community

Answer 10

-Hierarchy (church was very wealthy)
-Congregation had responsibility to obey church rules, respect priests, pay tithe
-Money from community to build beautiful churches (hard labor done by serfs & peasants)
-Wealthy citizens spent money to beautify city’s

Question 10

Polos

Answer 10

-Family that traveled entire Silk Road
-Marco Polo traveled through Asia with father & uncle & became famous for account of his travels