Geoterm Unit Europe Quiz

Question 1

Magna Carta

Answer 1

A written agreement signed 1215 that limited the power of the English monarchs

Question 2

Habeas corpus

Answer 2

The legal concept that a person can’t be jailed indefinitely without being charged of a crime

Question 3

Heretic

Answer 3

A person who holds beliefs that are contrary to a set of religious teachings,

Question 4

Janissaries

Answer 4

A salve soldier in the Ottoman Empire

Question 5

Absulutuism

Answer 5

A system of rule in which a monarch or other ruler enjoys unlimited power

Question 6

Despot

Answer 6

An absolute ruler

Question 7

Renanissance

Answer 7

A flowering of culture based on roman and Greek ideas

Question 8

Reformation

Answer 8

A reform movement of the 1500s that split the Catholic Church

Question 9

Protestant

Answer 9

A Christian who separated from the Catholic Church

Question 10

Hegemony

Answer 10

Indirect social, political or economic influence exerted by a dominate state

Question 11

Constantinople

Answer 11

Capitol of Byzantine empire

Question 12

Byzantine empire

Answer 12

The name for the eastern Roman Empire located at the crossroads of Europe and Asia