Engineering an Empire Study Guide
Test.
After the dark ages _______ lit up the world, it emerged from the devastating clouds of the Black Death.
- CORRECT ANSWER Italy
The enterprise of renaissance engineering is the recovery of _____ knowledge. - CORRECT ANSWER
Scientific knowledge
This era created a bold new sense that nothing was _____. - CORRECT ANSWER Impossible
Italy is beginning to rebirth because what's happening is that the ______ is being read instituted to the
Italian peninsula mainly through the Holy Roman Empire to the system called feudalism. - CORRECT
ANSWER Stability
New rulers of the Italian city states emerge, they are the _____. - CORRECT ANSWER Merchants
Wealth brought power and power could buy _____ and architecture. - CORRECT ANSWER Art
What resources was necessary for the prosperity of Siena? - CORRECT ANSWER Water
What engineering feat brought this resource to the city? - CORRECT ANSWER Bottini system
(Underground tunnels)
in 1347, The Black Death struck. One conservative estimate states that Siena lost over _____% of its
population in just a few months. - CORRECT ANSWER 60%
In the 13th and 14th centuries _____ was the power center of Europe. - CORRECT ANSWER Cities
Test.
After the dark ages _______ lit up the world, it emerged from the devastating clouds of the Black Death.
- CORRECT ANSWER Italy
The enterprise of renaissance engineering is the recovery of _____ knowledge. - CORRECT ANSWER
Scientific knowledge
This era created a bold new sense that nothing was _____. - CORRECT ANSWER Impossible
Italy is beginning to rebirth because what's happening is that the ______ is being read instituted to the
Italian peninsula mainly through the Holy Roman Empire to the system called feudalism. - CORRECT
ANSWER Stability
New rulers of the Italian city states emerge, they are the _____. - CORRECT ANSWER Merchants
Wealth brought power and power could buy _____ and architecture. - CORRECT ANSWER Art
What resources was necessary for the prosperity of Siena? - CORRECT ANSWER Water
What engineering feat brought this resource to the city? - CORRECT ANSWER Bottini system
(Underground tunnels)
in 1347, The Black Death struck. One conservative estimate states that Siena lost over _____% of its
population in just a few months. - CORRECT ANSWER 60%
In the 13th and 14th centuries _____ was the power center of Europe. - CORRECT ANSWER Cities
