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WorldHT-final
ALL TERMS ch13-23
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| classic | What is a work of superior excellence that has stood the test of time? |
| Germany | What country had produced the world's greatest musicians? |
| Isaac Watts | Who is the Father of the English Hymn? |
| Mozart | child prodigy and wrote The Magic Flute |
| greatest of the Dutch painters of all times. | Rembrandt van Rijn |
| wrote Paradise Lost | John Milton |
| Neoclassicism | art that uses classical Rome as a model |
| Alexander II | "Czar Liberator" |
| Vladimir Lenin | created the USSR [Soviet Union] |
| Jutland | What was the most important naval battle of World War I? |
| Lusitania | What was the British luxury liner sunk by a German submarine? |
| November 11, 1918 | On what date did World War I officially end? |
| Mexico | In the Zimmermann Note, to what country did Germany promise land in return for attacking the United States? |
| modernism | belief system that attacked basic Christian doctrines |
| socialism | system that puts businesses under state ownership vs private ownership |
| Churchill | prime minister during the Battle of Britain |
| Mussolini | organized fascist party in Italy |
| New Deal | The name of President Roosevelt's program for getting the United States out of the Great Depression |
| Nazi-Soviet Pact | non-aggression pact between Hitler and Stalin |
| Tripartite Treaty | Japan signed with Germany and Italy, joining the Axis Powers |
| Harry Truman | made decision to drop atomic bomb (on Japan) |
| Dwight Eisenhower | chosen to lead the invasion at Normandy |
| Neville Chamberlain | told by Hitler that he only wanted Sudetenland and agreed |
| Lend-Lease Act | passed by Congress to allow war materials to be given to Britain |
| best-known Great Awakening evangelist | George Whitefield |
| preached "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" | Jonathan Edwards |
| Separatists | What group of people believed that every local church congregation should be independent? |
| Mayflower Compact | Pilgrims signed this and recognized importance of civil/democratic government |
| 1620 | In what year did the Pilgrims land in the New World? |
| George Washington | commander in chief of the Continental Army |
| unanimously elected 1st President | |
| War of 1812 | 2nd war of USA against Great Britain |
| Spanish-American War | war between the United States and Spain in Cuba due to the USS Maine's explosion |
| Louis XV [15] | "After me the deluge." |
| Louis XVI [16] | first person executed by National Convention |
| Louis XIV [14] | revoked Edict of Nantes |
| National Assembly | declared itself as the official representative body of all the people of France |
| Bastille | castle stronghold stormed by the people of Paris in 1789 |
| Edict of January | allowed French Calvinist Protestants to worship in public, outside town limits |
| Lord Nelson | defeated Napoleon at the Battle of Trafalgar; greatest naval hero the world has ever known |
| Capt. James Cook | Who explored Australia and New Zealand for Britain? |
| Canada | What country became a self-governing commonwealth as a result of the British North American Act? |
| Edward VII | With what ruler did Britain begin her decline? |
| Samuel Crowther | first black bishop of the Church of England |
| William Pitt | British prime minister who divided Canada |
| Bible | What did Victoria say was the secret to England's greatness? |
| Florence Nightingale | Who single-handedly created the modern nursing profession? |
| Charles Spurgeon | Prince of Preachers |
| Robert Morrison | first Protestant missionary to China |
| Cyrus McCormick | invented the reaper |
| domestic system | produced goods in small private shops. |
| Henry Ford | engineered an inexpensive automobile due to his assembly line |
| Adam Smith | largely responsible for the rise and triumph of capitalism |
| astrology | the confused idea that the stars, rather than God, rule the destinies of men |
| Isaac Newton | discovered the law of universal gravitation |
| Albert Einstein | remembered for theories of relativity |
| What great ruler of the Maurya Empire controlled over two thirds of the Indian subcontinent? | Asoka |
| What is the world's oldest living civilzation? | China |
| Great Wall of China | What is the world's longest fortification? |
| Genghis Khan | Had the largest empire in history !! |
| paper | what T'sai Lun invented |
| Prince Shotoku | Founder of Japanese civilization |
| Indonesia | This country became an important international crossroads for trade |
| Christopher Columbus | man who discovered Cuba, Hispaniola, and the Bahamas while searching for the Indies |
| Sir Francis Drake | `1st Englishman to sail around the world |
| Johann Gutenberg | invented movable-type printing press |
| Desiderius Erasmus | published the first printed edition of the New Testament in the original Greek |
| Martin Luther | nailed 95 Theses to the church of Wittenburg |
| Tetzel | sold indulgences in Germany |
| 1440 | When was the movable-type printing press invented? |
| 1456 | When was the first printed edition of the Bible produced? |
| 1517 | When did the Protestant Reformation begin? |
| Edict of Worms | what Charles V issued to declare Luther a heretic |
| Ulrich Zwingli | began revival in Zurich during Reformation |
| John Calvin | began revival in Geneva, Switzerland during Reformation |
| Margrete | What ruler of Denmark extended the kingdom to be the largest kingdom in Europe at that time? |
| Hapsburgs | What family line of Austria ruled the Holy Roman Empire for almost 300 years? |
| Portugal | country that led the way in the great age of exploration. |
| Switzerland | Country with a policy of national neutrality |
| France | Ancient Gaul became the modern nation of... |
| Peasant's Revolt | result of unrest and grievances against nobles |
| Jesuits | prominent group of Counter-reformation formed by Ignatius Loyola with philosophy of "the end justifies the means" |
| Peace of Westphalia | treaty that ended the 30 Years' War with the same situation as before the war |
| Peace of Augsburg | gave official approval to state churches in Germany in 1555 |
| Richard I | king of England was known for his love of Crusades |
| Alfred the Great | First king of England |
| 1215 | When was the Magna Carta signed? |
| Plantagenet | What line of English kings was begun by Henry II? |
| Simon de Montfort | Who called the first meeting of Parliament? |
| Edward I | Which king's Model Parliament set the precedent of representative government in England? |
| Joan of Arc | Who was the Maid of Orleans who led the French to some victories over England? |
| Battle of Bosworth Field | What battle ended the Wars of the Roses? |
| Mary Tudor - Protestants | Which Tudor ruler persecuted religion the most, and which sect of religion was persecuted? |
| William the Silent | leader of the Dutch repressed patriots against Spain |
| John Knox | Leader of the Scottish Reformation |
| Philip II | king who built up the Spanish Armada |
| 1588 | when the Spanish Armada was defeated |
| William Shakespeare | perhaps the greatest English writer the world has ever known |
| 1611 | When the KJV was completed |
| Cavaliers | In the English Civil War, who supported the king? |
| Roundheads | In the English Civil War, who opposed the king? |
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