End of Semester Study Guide Flashcards
What was th Elizabethan Age
Wgen the Renisance moved to England and it was given that name because Queen Elizabeth was in power
Where did the Renaissance begin
Italy
Where did the Reformation begin
Germany
What were the formal statements that Martin Luther wrote attacking the Catholic Churchy
95 Thesus
Who had the greatest empire in Mesoamerica
Aztecs
Who had the largest empire to ever exist in the Americas
Incas
What were the 2cultures that influenced the Renaissance, referred to as the “Classical Heritage”
Rome and Greece
What were the 3 branches of Protestant Christianity
Lutheranism
Calvinsim
Anglism
Who were the 2 main Christian Humanists at this period of history
Desiderius Erasmus and Thomas Moore
What did the presence of gypsim indicate was the likely cause of the collapse of the Maya
Servere drought
What was the focus of Christian Humanism
to reform society
For what purpose did the Mound Builder cultures build the earthen mounds
to bury the dead and religious purposes
What was the Maya calender based on (three things) and uwhat was it used for (give 2 examples)
The calendar was based on the sun and moon and planets it was used best time to plant crops and to know when to appoint a new ruler and when to attack people
Why did the Aztecs believe it was nessary to make blood sacrifices to the sun god, Huizilopochtli
they believed that Huizilopochtli needed the nurrishment of blood to fight off evil spirts and make the sun come up in the morning
Mughal
nomads who invaded India in the 16th century
Safavid Empire
A Shi’ite Muslim dynasty that ruled in Persia between the 16th and 18th centuries
Shah
Persian title for king
Ghazi
a warrior for Islam
Sultan
“Overload” or “one with power”; title for Ottoman rulers during the rise of the Ottoman Empire
Devshirme
in the Ottoman Empire, the policy of taking boys from conquered Christian peoples to be trained as Muslim soldiers
Janissary
A member of a eliete force of soldiers in the Ottoman Empire
Predestination
a doctrine that God has decided all things beforehand, including which people will be eternally saved
Theocracy
a government controlled by religious leaders
Presbyterian
a member of a Protestant church governed by presbyters (elders), founded on the teachings of John Knox
Anabaptist
a group that only baptized who were old enough to decide to be a Christian; also believed the church and state should be separate
Indulgence
is a pardon releasing a person from punishment due for sin
Reformation
a 16th century movement for religious reform, leading to the founding of the Christian churches that rejected that popes authority
Protestant
is a member of the Christian church founded on the principiles of the Reformation
Annul
to cancel or set aside
Anglican
is relating to the Church of England
Renaissance
is a period of European history (1300-1600) during which renewed interest in classical culture led to far reaching changes in art, learning, and views of the world
Humanism
is a Renaissance intellectual movement in which thinkers studied classical texts and focused on human potential and achievements
Secular
is concerned with worldly rather than spiritual matters
Patron
is a person who supports artists, especially financially
Perspective
is an artistic technique that creates the appearance of three dimensions on a flat surface
Vernacular
everday language of a people in a country (not formal language)
Ayllu
the Incan society, a small community or family group whose members worked together for the common good.
Mita
Their form of tribute which was forced labor that all subjects in the Incan society had to do
Quipu
An arrangment of knotted strings on a cord to record numerical information
Obsidian
a hard glassy volcaic rock used by early peoples to make sharp weapons
Quetzalcoatl
is the “the feathered serpent”- a god of the Toltecs and other Mesoamerican peoples
Glyph
a symbolic picture used as a writing system for writing messages into stone
Codex
book with pages that could be turned
Popol Vuh
A book containing a version of Mayan creation story
Potlatch
ceremonial feast used to display rank and prosperity in some Northwest Coast tribes of Native Americans
Pueblo
a village of apartment like buildings made of clay and stone
Totem
a animal or other natural object that served as a symbol of unity between clans or other groups of people.
