World History Word Scramble

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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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