Renaissance, the Ottoman Empire, and Venice

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  1. 3. The first country to experience the Renaissance and the place with the biggest explosion of innovations in art, architecture, and music.
  2. 5. The _________ winds were predictable so the trade could flourish by using sailing ships which can carry heavy and bulky goods.
  3. 7. This term means rebirth and is used to describe the few hundred year period in which new changes and new started to emerge in Europe.
  4. 10. The Renaissance did not look forward, but instead looked way back to the __________ period before the Middle Ages to the Romans and Greeks.
  5. 11. The City that was the trade gateway between Europe and the Ottoman Empire is known for its bridges and _______.
  6. 16. This conquest of this Byzantine city was one of the first major goals of the Ottoman Empire.
  7. 18. The Renaissance came between the Middle Ages and the ___________, the time period when people started looking forward, started moving away from the old ideas of religion, and started recognizing individual rights.
  8. 19. Their failure to capture this Austrian city stopped the Ottoman advance into Europe.
  9. 20. Venice is famous for its production of fine _____.
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  1. 1. If you bought these from the Catholic Church, you would be forgiven for all your sins.
  2. 2. Trade in the ______ Ocean linked Africa, East Asia, South Asia, and even Indonesia and other Islands in the Southeast Pacific.
  3. 4. In the canals of Venice, these small boats are paddled around showing tourists the city.
  4. 6. This city-state (now part of Italy) was the center of trade for goods flowing from Africa and the Ottoman Empire.
  5. 8. The Ottomans captured Christian boys, castrated them, and forced them into military service as the ______________.
  6. 9. This leader was the founder of the Ottoman Empire: ________ the First.
  7. 10. While the rise in _____________ is almost as old as the universe, it has greatly accelerated and we now have an incredibly large inter-connected network of people and ideas.
  8. 12. The unification of all the world zones allowed for more exchange of ideas, technologies, and inventions – known as __________ learning.
  9. 13. The leader of Venice was elected by the other rich merchants/nobles and called the _____.
  10. 14. This “saint’s remains” are in Venice, where a church and a famous plaza are named after him too. Legend says his body was smuggled out of Egypt in a shipment of pork.
  11. 15. The _______ Empire blocked European access to Asia and fueled massive exploration by Europeans and started the expansion that soon covered all the continents in the world.
  12. 17. One of the most prized cargos moving from the Ottoman Empire to Europe, black ______ was used to cover the taste of spoiled meat.