Notes for Spring Quiz 7; Chapter 13, Lesson 1; Chapter 7, Lesson 3 Answer these questions to make your notes. How did the Mongols indirectly help make new ideas, knowledge, and goods available to Europeans? p. 236 Starting around the A.D. 1200s, what did Europeans do to gain more knowledge and understanding of life? p. 432 How did Marco Polo’s journey to China help make new ideas, knowledge, and goods available to Europeans? p. 236-237 Why would the text (p. 432) read that the Latin writer Cicero would be unknown if the Italian poet and scholar Petrarch had not been among the first in Europe to stress the value of classical learning? How would towns and cities become more important than manors controlled by nobles as a result of the bubonic plague? p. 334 If Europeans in the A.D. 1200s started to once again gain knowledge and understanding of their world, how would the goal and topics stressed in the social movement called humanism help them? p. 432 How would towns and cities become more important than manors controlled by nobles because of changes in trade? p. 336 How did the social movement called humanism stress the importance of the individual European? p. 432 Why would the Hundred Years’ War be a cause for people to become unified into nations under the leadership of kings? p. 336-337 The efforts of Petrarch and the effects of humanism helped to start a new social movement in Europe called the Renaissance. Why would this movement be important to Europeans? p. 433