1. Renaissance
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2. Key term meaning “worldly” rather than spiritual
Secularism

3. Influential political work written by Machiavelli
The Prince

4. Italian city-state led by a group of wealthy merchant-aristocrats
Venice

5. Interest in and study of classical writing, art, and society
Humanism

6. Powerful family that controlled Florence with their wealth
Powerful family that controlled Florence with their wealth. Major supporters of the arts.
Medici

7. Soldiers who sold their service to the highest bidder
merceneries

8. Sum of money given by the wife’s family to the husband’s upon marriage
dowry

9. He made an enormous impact on European society by inventing the printing press.
Johannes Guttenburg

10. Considered to be the Father of Italian Renaissance Humanism
Petrarchh

11. Approximate starting date of the Italian Renaissance
1350