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World History
2nd semester
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| At the heart of feudalism was..... | vassalage, which meant warriors swore loyalty to a lord, who in turn took care of their needs. |
| Christian humanists believed that.... | if people oculd read the classics, and especially the basic works of christianity, they would become more pious. |
| The publication of Martin Luther's Ninety-five Theses..... | attacked the abuses in sale of indulgences, beginning the Protestant Reformation. |
| The most important gift a lord could give to a vassal was.... | a piece of land |
| The Black Death killed nearly 38 million ppl, resulting in | severe economic consequences |
| Both the catholics and the protestants considered the _____ to be dangerous radicals. | Anabaptists |
| The revolt led by Hussein in the early Umayyad period led to | the split of Island into 2 groups, the Shiites and the Sunnis |
| Islamic scholars and theologians organized islamic moral rules into the _____, or code of law. | shari'ah |
| According to mercantilists, the prosperity of a nation depended on...... | a large supply of bullion, or gold, and silver. |
| Lay investiture was a practice by which | secular rulers both chose nominees to church offices and gave them the symbols of their office. |
| ___ was the first Protestant faith. | Lutheranism |
| The _____ is the difference in value between what a nation imports and what it exports over time. | balance of trade |
| After Muhammad's death, Muslim scholars drew up the shari'ah, which is.... | a law code that provides believers with a set of practical laws to regulate their daily lives. |
| The High Renaissance in Italy is associated with which three artists? | Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, and Michelangelo |
| What was the name of the set of principles that dominated economic thought in the seventeenth century? | Mercantilism |
| The ____ movement had a profound effect on education. | Humanist |
| Serfs were different from peasants in that serfs.... | were legally bound to the land upon which they worked and lived. |
| The work of William Shakespeare is perhaps the best example of _____ literature. | Elizabethan |
| The Magna Carta was a document that | evenutally was used to strengthen the idea that a monarch's power was limited, not absolute. |
| ___ was a code of ethics that knights were supposed to uphold. | Chivalry |
| The ideas of ____ can be found in the American Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution. | John Locke |
| ____ went to his grave believing he had discovered a westward passage to Asia, when in fact he had actually discovered the Americas. | Christopher Columbus |
| Originally, African Slaves were brought to the Americas to supply labor for the ...... | sugarcan plantations |
| To Portuguese explorers, the southern coast of West Africa became known as the.... | Gold Coast |
| Gregory I, also known as Gregory the Great, .... | strengthened the power of the papacy and the Roman Catholic Church. |
| A crucial part of every Muslim city or town was the ___, which was a covered market. | Bazaar |
| Elections for city council in medieval cities were often.... | carefully rigged to make sure that only patricians were elected. |
| ___ became the dominant religion on the Southeast Asian mainland from 1500 to 1800. | Buddhism |
| What was the name for the journey of slaves from Africa to America? | The Middle Passage |
| ___ founded the Society of Jesus, also known as the Jesuits. | Ignatius of Loyola |
| According to Islamic belief, Muhammad is... | the prophet of Allah |
| Muhammad began to meditate in the hills because... | he became trouble by the gap between the honesty of most Makkans and teh greediness of trading elites in the city. |
| The ___ were Protestants in England who were inspired by Calvinist ideas. | Puritans |
| A ____ was a heavy, wheeled plow with an iron plowshare. | carruca |
| According to the Quran, fair, defensive warfare is a jihad, which mean.... | struggle in the way of God |
| The ___ was a set of unwritten rules that determined the realtionship between a lord and his vassal. | Feudal Contract |
| Why are there no representations of the prophet Muhammad adorning mosques? | The Hadith warns against any attempt to imitate God by creating pictures of living beings. |
| In addition to the Five PIllars, Muslims must obey the shari'ah, which..... | forbids them to gamble, eat pork, drink alcoholic beverages, or engage in dishonest behavior. |
| Phillip II of spain was known as the.. | "Most Catholic King" |
| The Inquistion was | the court created by the Catholic church to find and try heretics |
| For Muslims, obeying Allah's will means following.... | the Five Pillars of Islam. |
| ___ literature was literature written in the language of everyday speech in a particular region. | Vernacular |
| Merchants and artisans living in walled cities came to be called.... | burghers or bourgeoisie, from the German word burg, meaning "a walled enclosure". |
| James I of England believed in the divine right of Kings, which is.... | the idea that kings recieve their power from God and are responsible only to God. |
| One of the Five Pillars of Islam, the hajj is.... | a pilgrimage to Makkah. |
| What is absolutism? | A system of government in which a ruler holds total power. |
| WHat was the "Glorious Revolution"? | the Invasion of England by William of Orange, which overthrew James II with almost no bloodshed |
| Saint Benedict founded a community of monks that.... | established the basic form of monasticism in the Catholic church. |
| Calvin agreed with Luther on most important doctrines except..... | predestination |
| Joan of Arc brought the Hundred Years' War to a decesive turning point by... | inspiring the French with her faith. |
| Leonardo de Vinci was an excellent example of Renaissance Italy's social ideal because he.... | was a painter, sculptor, architect, inventor, and mathematician. |
| The foundation for a constitutional monarchy in England was laid by the..... | Bill of Rights |
| Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales is an important work because..... | Chaucer's use of the English vernacular was important in making his dialect the chief ancestor of the modern English language. |
| To achieve his political ends, Pope Innocent III often used an interdict, which.... | prohibited priests from giving the sacraments of the church to a particular group of people. |
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