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Maddox World Finals
For those in Maddox World 2011
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What country did Dias represent? | Portugal |
| What country did DaGama represent? | Portugal |
| What country did Columbus represent? | Spain |
| What are the names of the two people that sponsered Columbus' voyage? | Isabella and Ferdinand |
| Spanish were the first European nation to try to build an empire made up of foreign _______, or lands that are controlled by another nation | colonies |
| Italian explorer, __________, discovered continents that Columbus had discovered were not part of Asia but a "new world" that would bear his name | Vespucci |
| ___________ was the first European explorer to sail across the Atlantic and march across the Isthmus of Panama to see the Pacific Ocean | Balboa |
| What are two key factors that enabled the Europeans to defeat the native inhabits of the new world with such ease? | -weapons -disease |
| The line of demarcation established a boundary between... | new lands Portugal could claim and Spain could claim |
| The exchange of goods between two parties/countires is called... | commerce |
| 'pax romana' means | the peace of the Roman Empire |
| Whos splite the Roman Empire in half? | Diocletian |
| This person changed the capital of the Roman Empire to Byzantium | Contantine |
| Byzantium was renamed... | Constantinople |
| The Roman Empire _______ people to the ways of the Roman Empire | Assimilate |
| True/False: Taxes had to be paided in money suring Diocletion's Rule | False |
| Diocletion persecuted whom? | Christians |
| What were the Goth's nicknamed | Barbarians |
| Who pushed the Huns into the Roman Empire? | mongals |
| The man money system was discribed by this word... | Wergeld |
| True/False | The Roman Army faied to assimilate the Germanic tribes |
| Major Domo is the? | mayor of the palace |
| Father of Pepin was? | Charles Martel |
| this happened in 732AD | the battle of tours |
| Pepin the Short outsmarted who? | the Merovingian King |
| The Dontation of Pepin was... | the papal states |
| Who did Charlemange send to to check up onthe counts? what were they called? | Missi Dominici |
| The Rebirth of Learning was known as... | the carolingian Renaissance |
| the change in writing with the addition of lowercase letters and the space was called the... | Carolingian Miniscule |
| This happened is 843AD | the tready of Verdun |
| Where did the Moors come from? | north africa and spain |
| This happened in 800AD | Charlemange was crowned emperor |
| the first step to becomming a knight was being a.. | page |
| the second step to becomming a knight was being a.. | squire |
| What are mock battles | battles that squires fight in order to gain experience |
| What was the code that a knight must always follow? | the code of chivalry |
| the tree people that a knight must defend are... | -his chosen lady -his land lord -his heavenly lord |
| everyone was subject to this law when it came to religious and marital practices... | the cannon law |
| important religous practices conducted by a priest | Sacraments |
| banishment form the church... | Excommunication |
| no religous cerimonies can be done on this land when it is under... | Interdict |
| how many routes to heaven are there? | 5 |
| _____________ carved the piata out of ____________ | Micheangelo....marble |
| the part of Justinian's code that held all of the new laws was called the... | novellae |
| In 1054 the geat schism split creating two churches...the Roman catholic and the_______ | greek orthadox |
| Cryil converted many Russians to Christianity and created his own alphabet called... | cryllic |
| in africa the sahara, rainforest, and the savannas are all examples of... | interal trade barriers |