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Italian City-States

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Check out this packet of worksheets involving mapping activities, vocabulary logging, reading and comprehending informational texts, etc., which focuses on Italian city-states during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. There are also activity and note-taking guidelines for designing a scrapbook on the culture, politics, and social systems of Florence and Venice.

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CCSS: Adaptable

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the printing press, johannes gutenberg, humanism, the renaissance, urbanization, venice

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urbanization, venice, florence, italian city-state, renaissance, guild, fresco, humanism, printing press, social studies

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  • Includes variety of well-designed activity rubrics
  • Check out related materials for useful worksheets on humanism, the printing press, the spread of the Renaissance, and so on

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  • Several worksheets require additional research and/or supplemental instructional material

Common Core

RH.6-8.1 RH.6-8.4 RH.9-10.1 RH.9-10.4

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