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HistoryMidterm!
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| History prepares us for the ___ | future |
| History gives us cultural ___ | Identity |
| History declares ___ | God's glory |
| History with a Christian worldview 1.___2.___3.___ | Divine Control, Man's fall into sin, Redemption in Christ |
| Polytheism | belief in many gods |
| cuneiform | writing on clay tablets using a wedge shaped stylus |
| Hammurabi | Amorite King who united Mesopotamia and established a code of law |
| Epic of Gilgamesh | noted example of Babylonian literature; the world was flooded |
| Kufu | most famous pharaoh who built the great pyramid |
| Rosetta Stone | Unlocked hieroglyphics, allowing them to be deciphered |
| Abraham | Mesopotamian called by God; father of Israel |
| Abrahamic Covenant 1.___2.___3.___ | Great seed of group of descendants, Promised land of Cannan, All the earth would be blessed through him |
| Thales | Father of Philosophy; origin of the earth was water |
| Socrates | "Know Thyself"; denied the gods; truth could not be attained through human reason |
| Plato | Socrates Pupil; true reality lies outside our world |
| Aristotle | plato's student; the mind of the school; reality is in the physical world; syllogism |
| Pythagoras | Pythagorean theorem; universe can be explained mathematically |
| Hippocrates | Father of medicine; famous physician |
| Herodotus | Father of History; History of the Persian War |
| Sophocles | Tragedy writer |
| Aristophanes | Comedy writer |
| Romulus & Remus | Brothers; founders of Rome |
| Patricians | aristocratic class |
| Plebians | inferior class of common people |
| 509 B.C. | establishment of the Roman Republic |
| Republic | voting citizens control government through elected officials |
| Law of Twelve Tables | foundation of Roman Civil Law |
| Pyrrhus | aided the Greeks against Rome; costly victory "Pyrrhic victory" |
| Hannibal | powerful Carthaginian commander of the second Punic War |
| Tiberius and Gaius | champions of the poor; land reforms; both killed |
| Julius Caesar | popular with the common people; assassinated; first emperor |
| Virgil | "Homer of Rome"; Greatest Roman poet; Aeneid |
| Livy | History of Rome in 142 volumes |
| Tacitus | Historian who favored the old Republic; Annals; pessimistic history of Rome |
| Christianity | being a disciple of Christ |
| Jesus Christ | Son of God sent to earth to die and pay for the sins of the world |
| Crucifixion | Death on a cross; method of Jesus Christ' death by which he paid for the world's sins |
| A.D. 70 | destruction of Jerusalem by Titus |
| Constantine | legalized Christianity with the Edict of Milan |
| Visigoths | rebelled against Rome and won |
| Vandals | Germanic tribe in N. Africa that attacked Rome |
| A.D. 476 | fall of Rome |
| New Rome | Constantinople; new capitol of the Roman Empire |
| Justinian Code | systematic arrangement of laws that clarified Roman legal principles |
| Hagia Sophia | "Holy Wisdom"; finest example of Byzantine architecture |
| Muhammad | last and greatest prophet of Allah; founder of Islam |
| Allah | god of Islam |
| Koran | sacred book of Muslims; revealed to Muhammad by Gabriel |
| Castes | rigid social groups |
| Hinduism | dominant religion in India |
| Confucianism | influential Chinese philosophy developed by Confucius |
| Taoism | influential Chinese philosophy developed by Lao-Tzu |
| Jimmu Tenno | First emperor of Japan; descendant of the sun goddess |
| Samurai | bushi; Japanese warrior |
| Genghis Khan | "universal ruler"; leader of the Mongols |
| Kublai Khan | completed the conquest of China; grandson of Genghis Khan |
| Batu Khan | led the Mongols into Europe; Golden Horde |
| Frumentius | converted Aksum to Christianity |
| Mansa Musa | most famous ruler of Mali |
| Patrick | English monk who took the gospel to Ireland |
| Boniface | English monk who took the gospel to Germany |
| Charlemagne | Son of Pepin the Short named Charles whose accomplishments earned the the name Charlemagne meaning "Charles the Great" |
| Alcuin | Most distinguished scholar of Western Europe; taught the children of the Royal family and nobles |
| Homage | Ceremony by which a man became a vassal |
| Chivalry | knight's code; brave, skillful, honest, generous, and loyal |
| Peace of God | Church forbade the pillage of her property and extended protection to all noncombatants |
| Truce of God | forbade fighting on certain days |
| Lay investiture | kings and nobles appoint church officials and invest them with their religious authority |
| simony | buying and selling of religious or blessed articles, goods, and positions |
| Francis of Assisi | founded the Franciscan order; devoted his life to ministering to the poor |
| Innocent III | held the most extensive authority over the Church and State |
| Alfred the Great | defeated the Danes and pushed them back into N.E. England |
| 1066 | Battle of Hastings; William the Conqueror defeated Harold earl of Wessex |
| Magna Carta | "Great Charter"; one of the most important documents in English History; limited the king's power |
| Scholasticism | intellectual movement with renewed interest in theology and philosophy; sought to harmonize faith and reason |
| Thomas Aquinas | prince of the schoolmen; summa theologica |
| Dante Alighieri | Italian poet who wrote the divine comedy |
| Geoffry Chaucer | English poet who wrote the Canterbury tales |
| 100 years war | Battles between England and France from 1337-1453 |
| Joan of Arc | French peasant who was called by God to drive the English out of France |
| Great Schism | 40 years of divided allegiance in Europe over two popes one in Rome and one in Avignon |
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