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| quesion | answer |
|---|---|
| What and where are the Alps | A Mt. Range in Europe that goes across France, Switzerland and above Italy |
| Where is the English Channel | Between the UK and France |
| Where is the Mediterranean Sea | North of Africa and west of Asia |
| Where are the Pyrenees Mts. | Between Spain and France |
| Where are the Ural Mts. | The border between Europe and Asia |
| What is the geography of Greece like | Surrounded by steep Mts. and any part of Greece is no more than 50 miles away from water |
| Who was Homer | A Greek writer, wrote the Iliad and the Odessy |
| What where the Iliad and Odessy | Epics, written by Homer |
| What where the Persian wars | A series of wars with Greece and Persia |
| What were the Olympics | Begun in 776 BC, where started in the name of Zeus |
| What is an oligarchy | A form of Gov't which the power rests on a small number of people |
| Who was Alexander the Great | One of the greatest military minds if history, ruler the ancient Greek kingdom of Macedonia made the biggest empire in the world at the time |
| When was Rome founded | April 21st 753 BC |
| What was the consul | elected political officials |
| Why were there checks and balances | So that one branch of Gov't didn't get too powerful |
| What where the twelve tables | The original code of laws for Rome |
| Who where the Patricians | Rich people who got to vote |
| Who where the Plebians | Poor people Gov't didn't listen to them much until they got a seat |
| Who was Julies Caesar | Politician,general, and leader of the roman republic is Octavians' Great uncle |
| Who was Octavian/Augustus | Was the first emperor of Rome |
| What was the Roman Empire | After the Roman Republic time period |
| What is bread and circuses | The diet of entertainers |
| What was the size of the Roman Empire | 1.7 million square miles, biggest empire |
| When did the middle ages start and end | Fall of the roman empire and start of the renaissance |
| Who are Barbarians | Anyone who inst in your tribe |
| What is Feudalism | A social system existing in medieval Europe in which people worked and fought for nobles who gave them protection and land in return |
| What is the Feudal pyramid | The pope has power over the king, the king has power over the lords and barons, the lords and barons have power over the knights and vassals, and the knights and vassals have power over the peasants and surfs |
| Who are Knights | A man who served his sovereign or lord as a mounted soldier in armor |
| What is chivalry | The combination of qualities expected of an ideal knight, especially courage, honor, courtesy, justice, and a readiness to help the weak |
| What are guilds | A medieval association of craftsmen or merchants, often having considerable power |
| What was the Black Death | The Black Death was one of the most devastating pandemics in human history, resulting in the deaths of an estimated 75 to 200 million people in Eurasia and peaking in Europe from 1346 to 1353 |
| What was the importance of the catholic church | The Roman Catholic Church became increasingly involved in secular (nonreligious) society during the Middle Ages (A.D. c. 450–c. 1500). It played a significant role in medieval European life through the activities of the clergy (church officials) |
| What are crusades | Medieval military expedition, one of a series made by Europeans to recover the Holy Land from the Muslims in the 11th, 12th, and 13th centuries |
| Who is pope Urban II | Pope Urban II makes perhaps the most influential speech of the Middle Ages, giving rise to the Crusades by calling all Christians in Europe to war against Muslims in order to reclaim the Holy Land |
| What are the reasons for the decline of feudalism | the Crusades and travel during the Middle Ages opened new trade options to England.The Black Death - this reduced the population of England by one third. Labor became a valuable commodity |
| What is humanism | Renaissance cultural movement that turned away from medieval scholasticism and revived interest in ancient Greek and Roman thought |
| What exploration happened during the Renaissance | The Age of Exploration began in the 1400s and continued through the 1600s. It was a period of time when the European nations began exploring the world. |
| Who is Christopher Columbus | Christopher Columbus was an Italian explorer, navigator, and colonizer. Sailed to the new world in 1492 |
| Who is Ferdinand Magellan | A Portuguese explorer who organised the Spanish expedition to the East Indies from 1519 to 1522, resulting in the first circumnavigation of the Earth |
| What sailing instruments where used during the renaissance | Triangular sails, sextets, maps, compasses |
| What were Ferdinand Magellan and his crew looking for when they circumnavigated the globe | The Silk road |
| What advances in art occurred during the Renaissance | Foreshortening, Chiaroscuro, sfumato |
| Who is Leonardo Da Vinci | Leonardo DeVinci was an Italian Renaissance polymath whose areas of interest included invention, painting, sculpting, architecture, science, music mathematics, engineering, literature, anatomy, geology, astronomy, botany, writing, history, and cartography |
| What is a(n) (sale of) indulgence | An indulgence was a payment to the Catholic Church that purchased an exemption from punishment (penance) for some types of sins. |
| What was martin Luther's 95 Thesis | The 95 Theses,” a list of questions and propositions for debate. On October 31, 1517 Luther defiantly nailed a copy of his 95 Theses to the door of the Wittenberg Castle church |
| Who was king Henry VII | He changed the religious of England so that he could divorce his wifey |
| Who was John Calvin | John Calvin was a French theologian, pastor and reformer in Geneva during the Protestant Reformation |
| What is predestination | Predestination, in theology, is the doctrine that all events have been willed by God, usually with reference to the eventual fate of the individual soul (set fate from birth) |
| What is Geocentrism | The geocentric model is a superseded description of the universe with Earth at the center |
| What is Heliocentrism | Heliocentrism is the astronomical model in which the Earth and planets revolve around the Sun at the center of the Solar System |
| Who is Galileo Galilei | He used his newly invented telescope to study sunspots on the Sun. Galileo's observations strengthened his belief in Copernicus' theory that Earth and all other planets revolve around the Sun. |
| Who is Nicolaus Copernicus | Nicolaus Copernicus was a Polish astronomer who put forth the theory that the Sun is at rest near the center of the Universe, and that the Earth, spinning on its axis once daily, revolves annually around the Sun |
| Who is Johannes Gutenberg | Johannes Gutenberg was a German blacksmith, goldsmith, printer, and publisher who introduced printing to Europe with the printing press |
| What is the Magna Carta | England drafted the Magna Carta to curtail the power of their own tyrannical monarch–King John |
| What is the divine right of kings | The doctrine that kings derive their authority from God, not from their subjects, from which it follows that rebellion is the worst of political crimes |
| What is the English bill of rights | The English Bill of Rights, is an Act of the Parliament of England that deals with constitutional matters and sets out certain basic civil rights. |
| What is the glorious revolution | The Glorious Revolution was the overthrow of King James II of England by a union of English Parliamentarians |
| What is absolutism | Absolutism is a political theory and form of government where unlimited, complete power is held by a centralized sovereign individual, with no checks or balances from any other part of the nation or government |
| What is an Encyclopedia | A book or set of books giving information on many subjects or on many aspects of one subject and typically arranged alphabetically |
| What is Deism | Deism is a philosophical position that posits that God does not interfere directly with the world |
| What caused the French revolution | War debt ,American Revolution; Seven Years War. Royal debt.maintaining Versailles, Marie-Antoinette's dress allowance, gambling, entertainment, jewelry. Food shortages droughts caused food prices to rise for peasants. "Let them eat cake." Chateaux |
| What was the first estate | Members of the clergy (church); about 1% of the population, owned 10% of land, paid little in taxes |
| What was the second estate | Members of the nobility; about 3% of the population, owned 80% of the land, paid little in taxes. |
| What was the third estate | All other members of society; about 96% of the population; paid almost all of the taxes |
| Who were the borgeouisie | Wealthy merchants and artisans who owned land and paid heavy taxes; about 8% of the population |
| What was the estates General | Meeting called by Louis XVI to try to solve France's financial crisis; began on May 5, 1789 |
| What was the Declaration of Rights of Man and of the Citizen (DRMC) | A document published on August 26, 1789 that outlined the rights of people in France; fair trials, innocent until proven guilty, freedom of religion, fair taxes, etc. |
| Who is Nepoleon Bonaparte | Born on Corsica, went to military school, specialized in artillery. Became leader of the French army at age 26; fought Austria, U.K., invaded Russia (lost).Crowned as emperor on December 2, 1804 |
| What was the storming of the Bastille | mob of angry peasants and city workers who tore down a French prison looking for weapons and gunpowder to defend themselves against the king's army; July 14, 1789 |
| What was the Reign of Terror | September 15, 1793-July 28, 1794; time when many people who were thought to be against the revolution were arrested and executed |
| What were the effects of the French Revolution | End of feudalism, end of the monarchy (for a while), church came under government control, use of the metric system, bourgeoisie and the land owners became the dominant social class, tax and legal codes were made more fair, idea of democracy spread |
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