Chapter 1 Quiz - The Renaissance

Why did cities grow?

Trade - exotic silk - knowledge was acquired

City-states - self-governed

Peasants + nobles left over from the plague moved to the cities - there’s hardly anyone left

Mountains - protected them - Catholic Chruch moved to France

Republics - despots and oligarchies

After years of fighting - Treaty of Lodi - stabilized

Marriages were often for political reasons

Glossary:

Papacy - the Pope and the government of the Roman Catholic Church

Republic - a state in which power is held by the people or their representatives

Despot - a leader with unlimited power; a tyrant or oppressor

Oligarchy - a form of government in which a few people have the power

Court - the families, advisors, and other members of a royal or noble household

Urbanization - the movement of population away from the countryside and into cities

Value judgement - an opinion based on a person’s individual values and beliefs

City-states - a city that governs itself and the countryside surrounding it

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