1. 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
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
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