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Chapter12
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| very humid, travel is done by foot or boat, live in huts, hunt for food, have a chief, very hot | Facts about the tropical rain forests (know 4) |
| Europes highest mountain range | Alps |
| world's largest lake | Caspian Sea |
| only continent with no large desert | Europe |
| highest spot in Europe | Mt. Elbrus |
| Europe's most important inland waterway | Rhine River |
| early Christian martyr who refused to blaspheme God | Polycarp |
| Bohemian burned at the stake for preaching that only Christ could forgive sin | Huss |
| 1st great missionary of the Christian church | Paul |
| Roman emperor who gave Christians freedom to worship | Constantine |
| 1st man to translate the entire Bible into English | Wycliffe |
| Roman Emperor who made it a crime and illegal to be a Christian | Nero |
| man who invented the printing press | Guttenberg |
| armed men who fought other men in the Colosseum for sport | Gladiator |
| new capital of Eastern Roman Empire built by Constantine | Constantinople |
| Christians willing to give up their lives rather than deny Christ | Martyrs |
| head of Roman Catholic Church | Pope |
| underground cemeteries beneath the city of Rome | Catacombs |
| special court set up to try and punish heretics | Inquisition |
| tribes that invaded Rome were Visigoths and ________ | Vandals |
| huge outdoor arena in Rome | Colesseum |
| nailed 95 Thesis on Church door | Martin Luther |
| land owned by the lords during the Middle Ages | Manor |
| most important invention in history | Printing Press |
| efforts to recapture Jerusalem from the Turks | Crusades |
| where the Protestant Reformation was | Germany |
| long trip taken for religious purposes | Pilgrimage |
| trained warriors who promised to help the lords fight his enemies | Knights |
| people who work the lord's land | Peasants |
| they lived in monasteries and copied Scripture by hand | Monks |
| began the Middle Ages | Fall of Rome |
| 1,000 year period after the Fall of Rome | Middle Ages |