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HisCh12
Chapter12
Question | Answer |
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very humid, travel is done by foot or boat, live in huts, hunt for food, have a chief, very hot | Facts about the tropical rain forests (know 4) |
Europes highest mountain range | Alps |
world's largest lake | Caspian Sea |
only continent with no large desert | Europe |
highest spot in Europe | Mt. Elbrus |
Europe's most important inland waterway | Rhine River |
early Christian martyr who refused to blaspheme God | Polycarp |
Bohemian burned at the stake for preaching that only Christ could forgive sin | Huss |
1st great missionary of the Christian church | Paul |
Roman emperor who gave Christians freedom to worship | Constantine |
1st man to translate the entire Bible into English | Wycliffe |
Roman Emperor who made it a crime and illegal to be a Christian | Nero |
man who invented the printing press | Guttenberg |
armed men who fought other men in the Colosseum for sport | Gladiator |
new capital of Eastern Roman Empire built by Constantine | Constantinople |
Christians willing to give up their lives rather than deny Christ | Martyrs |
head of Roman Catholic Church | Pope |
underground cemeteries beneath the city of Rome | Catacombs |
special court set up to try and punish heretics | Inquisition |
tribes that invaded Rome were Visigoths and ________ | Vandals |
huge outdoor arena in Rome | Colesseum |
nailed 95 Thesis on Church door | Martin Luther |
land owned by the lords during the Middle Ages | Manor |
most important invention in history | Printing Press |
efforts to recapture Jerusalem from the Turks | Crusades |
where the Protestant Reformation was | Germany |
long trip taken for religious purposes | Pilgrimage |
trained warriors who promised to help the lords fight his enemies | Knights |
people who work the lord's land | Peasants |
they lived in monasteries and copied Scripture by hand | Monks |
began the Middle Ages | Fall of Rome |
1,000 year period after the Fall of Rome | Middle Ages |