Renaissance L1

European trade with Asia increased in the _.

Trade cities in _ grew wealthy and competed against each other.

As _ became a center for arts and learning, the Renaissance began.

European explorer who traveled through Asia in the 1200s (a)  

• Kublai Khan
• Marco Polo
• Cosimo de' Medici

a fee that borrowers pay for the use of someone else's money

• tribute

• trade

• interest

wealthy banker who turned Florence into a center of arts, culture, and education

• Cosimo de' Medici

• Marco Polo

• Kublai Khan

• Genghis Khan

period following the Middle Ages, means "rebirth"

• Reformation

• Re-ignition

• Renaissance

A traveler named _ journeyed along the Silk Road.

Who recorded information about his journey that made Europeans curious about Asia?

• Kublai Khan

• Medici

• Mongol

• Maro Polo

By the 1300s , Florence, Genoa, Milan, and Venice had become major trading centers in .