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Final Jeopardy
$100 Question from Florence
Why is Florence often called the “Cradle of the Renaissance”?
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$100 Answer from Florence
The culture of the Renaissance was centered there.
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$200 Question from Florence
During the Renaissance, Florence was the ____________ center of Europe.
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$200 Answer from Florence
Banking
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$300 Question from Florence
What was the relationship between the industries of Florence and its culture?
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$300 Answer from Florence
Wealthy patrons sponsored many artists.
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$400 Question from Florence
Why did people come from all over Europe to the Mercato Nuovo, or New Market, in Florence?
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$400 Answer from Florence
They came to get loans or convert their money into florins.
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$500 Question from Florence
Florence became the hub of what type of trading for all of Europe?
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$500 Answer from Florence
Woolen-Cloth
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$100 Question from Architecture
Which building in Florence do tourists visit because a famous author lived there?
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$100 Answer from Architecture
Casa di Dante
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$200 Question from Architecture
What were most palazzi like?
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$200 Answer from Architecture
Wealthy townhomes built around central courtyards
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$300 Question from Architecture
What is the name of the cathedral where Brunelleschi’s dome is located?
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$300 Answer from Architecture
Santa Maria del Fiore
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$400 Question from Architecture
What type of ideals often influenced the design of public spaces in Florence?
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$400 Answer from Architecture
Humanist
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$500 Question from Architecture
In what year did Florentines begin construction on this cathedral?
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$500 Answer from Architecture
1296
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$100 Question from Geography
Florence is located on what river?
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$100 Answer from Geography
The Arno River
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$200 Question from Geography
What specific geographic feature helped Florence become a trade center?
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$200 Answer from Geography
The Arno River
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$300 Question from Geography
What is the name of the mountain range in this picture?
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$300 Answer from Geography
Apennine
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$400 Question from Geography
Florence is locate in which region of Italy?
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$400 Answer from Geography
Central
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$500 Question from Geography
What are the names of the three seas that surround the Italian Peninsula?
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$500 Answer from Geography
Mediterranean Sea, Adriatic Sea, and Tyrrhenian Sea
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$100 Question from Figures
What was an important advancement by Renaissance painters such as Botticelli?
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$100 Answer from Figures
Creating an appearance of depth
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$200 Question from Figures
In addition to his painting, Leonardo da Vinci made advances in science, mathematics, and engineering. What did draw before anyone else?
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$200 Answer from Figures
He drew maps as if see from above
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$300 Question from Figures
The architect Brunelleschi studied mathematics and ancient ruins. What was his most remarkable architectural design?
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$300 Answer from Figures
A dome without internal supports
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$400 Question from Figures
What power family controlled Florence for almost 300 years?
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$400 Answer from Figures
The Medici Family
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$500 Question from Figures
Whose work on gravity and astronomy showed the value of observation and experiment?
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$500 Answer from Figures
Galileo
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$100 Question from Works
How are Donatello’s and Michelangelo’s statues of David similar to medieval sculpture?
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$100 Answer from Works
They show a figure from the Bible
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$200 Question from Works
What important change made literature more popular during the Renaissance that it had been before?
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$200 Answer from Works
Writers wrote in their own language
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$300 Question from Works
How was Dante’s work, The Divine Comedy, different from most medieval literature?
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$300 Answer from Works
It was filled with real people
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$400 Question from Works
What characteristic is most closely related to Machiavelli’s book, The Prince?
Poetry, Realism, Morality, or Imagination
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$400 Answer from Works
Realism
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$500 Question from Works
Who created this statue?
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$500 Answer from Works
Donatello
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Final JeopardyAre these quotes from the Petrarch a primary source or a secondary source? Explain.
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Final Jeopardy Answer
The quotes from the Petrarch are a primary source. Petrarch lived at the time and was part of the Renaissance, not someone writing about it later or from the outside.