Unit 1

Renaissance: The Origins of a Western Worldview

Targets
Skill Builders

Chapter 2 Summary

After completing Chapter 2, you should be able to answer the Big Question:

  • How could increased trade and business change a society's worldview?

The following smaller questions you studied in Chapter 2 help you answer the Big Question.


  1. What factors influenced the increase of trade between Western Europe and the East during the Renaissance?
  2. How did increased trade lead to the emergence of powerful city-states?
  3. How did a changing business model affect society?

Download the graphic organizer seen in Figure 2.1 to help you review Chapter 2.

Remember to review the vocabulary for Chapter 2.

  • city-states
  • commerce
  • Crusade
  • economics
  • hinterland
  • Islam
  • Medici
  • monarchy
  • Muslim
  • republic
  • Silk Road
  • social organization
  • usury


Figure 2.1 - Chapter 2 Graphic Organizer



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