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world studies 2 ppl
world regions to communist revolutions and indepence movements
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| abraham | founder of Judaism |
| moses | led jews out of Egypt in the exodus |
| Gautama | founder of Buddhism |
| Jesus of Nazareth | founder of christianity- according to Christians he's the messiah |
| Allah | Islamic name for god |
| Muhhammad | dounfer of Islam |
| Michelangelo | Renaissance artsist- painted the Sistine Chapel and scultpted la Pieta and David |
| Erasmus | most famous Chrtistain humanist; "In Praise of Folly" |
| Shakespeare | Renaissance playwright and writer of Sonnets |
| Turks | Muslims from Asia Minor- defeated Constantinople- renammed it Istanbul- traded cofee and ceramics- spread Islam to Middle East, North Africa and Balkan Peninsula |
| Leonardo da Vinci | Renaissance artist- painted Mona Lisa and Last supper |
| Pope | Head of the Roman Catholic Church |
| Johannes Gutenburg | invented the printing press; helped Renaissance ideas spread |
| Martin Luther | broke away from Catholic Church, German monk, salvation through faith alone |
| John Calvin | God predestines certain people go to heaven |
| Jesuits | Catholic order that proselytized for all over the world for Catholic church |
| Elizabeth I | Combined Catholic and Protestant to come up with Anglican Church |
| Jan Husse & John Wycliffe | Early dissenters who opposed the Catholic Church and were prosecuted for their beliefs |
| Henry VIII | Broke away from Catholic Church because of divorce |
| Prince Henry | Portugal- brought people together to study navigation |
| Columbus | wanted to sail west around the world to get to Asia- landed in the caribbean- thought he was in India |
| Magellan | His crew was first to circumnavigate the globe |
| Drake | first Englishman to sail around the globe |
| Cortez | Spanish conquistador- conquered Aztecs |
| Pizarro | Spanish conquistador- conquered Incas |
| Cartier | French Exlporer- claimed Canada for France |
| de Gama | Portuguese- first to find water route to Asia |
| Mughals | Muslims; ruled India; built Taj Mahal |
| Ottomans | Muslims; Asia Minor; cofee and ceramics |
| Sonhai | Africans- traded gold and salt |
| Japanese | kicked out foreigners and became isolationists |
| Chinese | set up trading enclaves for foreigners to trade in |
| Aztecs | Native american civilization; Mexico; corn |
| Incas | Native American civilization; peru; Andes Mountains; roads and bridges |
| Louis XIV | absolute monarch of France; brought great culture to France; also caused problems by doing away with the Edict of Nantes; built Versialles |
| Sun King | nickname for Louis XIV |
| Peter the Great | an absolute ruler of Russia; wanted to westernize Russia |
| Copernicus | Polish; heliocentric theory; feared the church |
| Kepler | German; used math to prove that the earth goes around the sun in an ellipse; planetary motion |
| Galileo | Italian; telescope to prove copernicus right; declared heretic |
| Harvey | English; blood circulated through the body |
| Newton | English; developed calculus and the laws of gravity |
| Montesquieu | French; wrote Spirit of the Laws; believed in seperation of power |
| Mozart | Austrian; great composer; classical; begain composing at age 5 |
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