Midterm Review Flashcards
Who is the sixth king of the Amorites and wrote code of laws?
Hammurabi
Who was sent by God to the promised land?
Abraham
Who was the emperor who ruled the New Babylonian empire and reached its heights?
Nebuchadnezzar
Who was the greatest Persian conqueror who ever lived?
Cyrus/Darius
Who wrote the Iliad and Odyssey?
Homer
Who was the influential leader of Athens?
Pericles
Who was one of the greatest military leaders and strategists in world history?
Alexander the Great
Who lived in Athens in their golden age and devoted his life to seeking truth?
Socrates
Who established the school of philosophy and science in Athens, and wrote Republic?
Plato
Who was the Greek philosopher and tutor of Alexander the Great, works on logic?
Aristotle
Who was the military genius who defeated the Roman army?
Hannibal
Who was the nephew of Marius, a military hero in Gaul and Britain?
Julius Ceaser
Who was Julius Ceaser’s nephew and avenged Julius Ceaser’s death and divided Rome?
Ceaser Augustus
Who was considered the greatest missionary?
Paul
Who was the official persecutor of Christians?
Nero
Who passed the Edict of Milan, and legalized Christianity?
Constantine
Who was the first Christian king of Aksum?
King Ezana
Who was Chandragupta Maurya’s grandson, and greatest ruler?
Asoka
Who was the first emperor of the Qin, who formalized Chinese writing?
Qin Shi Huang
Whose chief objective was to restore the greatness of the Roman territory?
Justinian/Theodora
Who claimed to be the last and greatest prophet of Allah?
Muhammad
Who was the exception of the Dark Ages, built an empire centered around France and crowned the Holy Roman Emperor?
Charlemagne
What was the group of invaders above France?
Vikings
Who was considered the strongest and most powerful pope?
Pope Innocent the 3rd
Who wrote the Common law and established circuit courts?
Henry the 2nd
Who was viewed as a great crusader but gone from the kingdom too much and taken as captive?
Richard the Lionhearted
Who lost lands in France and had to submit to the pope as a vassal, signed the Magna Carta?
John
Who wrote that understanding truth requires Reason and faith, Summa Theologica?
Thomas Aquinas
Who were the couple from Spain who talked people into fighting each other and conquering the opponent?
Ferdinand and Isabella
Who made the Sistine Chapel depicting scenes from creation to Redemption?
Michelangelo
Who made the Last Supper, Mona Lisa, a true Renaissance Man?
Leonardo da Vinci
Who was the morning star of the Reformation and translated the Bible into English?
John Wycliffe
Who was from Germany and became a monk after a close call with death, wrote the 95 Theses?
Martin Luther
Who was from Geneva and wrote the institutes of the Christian Religion?
John Calvin
Who tried to invade England in 1588, and lost against the Protestant Wind?
Philip the 2nd
Who was from Zurich and rejected the Pope’s authority, and argued against corruption in the church?
Zwingli
Who was from Scotland and established a Presbyterian church in Scotland?
John Knox
Who reaffirmed the Act of Suprememcey and allowed some tolerance for the Roman Catholic Church, persevered England from Spanish and Roman Catholic Church domination?
Elizabeth the 1st
What word means a record of the past from creation to the present, revealing the actions of God and humans based on surviving evidence?
History
What word means a group of people who establish cities, governments, social classes, specialized jobs, arts, science, written languages, and religion?
Civilization
What word means worshipping one or more gods?
polytheism
What word means the belief in one god?
monotheism
What word means the Egyptian language that was decoded by the Rosetta stone?
Hieroglyphics
What word means people governed directly by God?
theocracy
What word means the scattering of Jewish people throughout history?
diaspora
What is the rigid, social structure dictating entire life in India?
Caste
What word means fulfilling your duty/dharma, you will be reborn into a higher caste until you escape?
Reincarnation
What is outside of the Caste system and makes up 16% of India today?
Untouchables (Dalit)
What is the state of absolute peace and happiness where one loses oneself in the world soul?
Nirvana
What word means the belief that they are the center if the earth?
Middle Kingdom
What word means the belief in myths?
Mythology
What word means city-state was the basic political unit of Greece?
Polis
What was the part of Greece that had a democracy?
Athens
What was the part of Greece that had an oligarchy?
Sparta
What is a government with an individual ruler who functions as the head?
Monarchy
What word means a small group of people ruling?
Oligarchy
What word means cruel and oppressive government or rule?
Tyranny
What word means a state governed by a voted group?
Democracy
What word means the study of the theoretical basis of knowledge?
Philosophy
Who were the aristocratic class?
Patricians
Who were the common people?
Plebians
What word means the form of government in which representatives of the public rule?
Republic
What word means line of rulers of a country who are of the same family?
Dynasty
Who are the nomadic Arabs of Arabia?
Bedouin
What word means an Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca?
Haj
What word means the month where Muslims fast and pray?
Ramadan
What word means giving money and food to the poor?
Alms
What word means a group of islands?
Archipelago
What word means Japanese warriors?
Samurai
What word means the moral code of the samurai?
Bushido
What word means a foot support for horseback riding?
Stirrup
What word means tents that moved, with Mongols?
Yurt
What word means bishop of Rome, became known as the Head of the Church?
Pope
What word means a religion believed in the father, son,and virgin mary?
Catholic
What word means a religious act that grants grace and based on the recipient’s right intentions?
Sacraments
What word means the way of life in the Middle Ages, where everything was based on ownership of land?
Feudalism
What word means a self-containing farming community contracted by lord and farmed by peasants?
Manor
What word means people who provided food “some to work”?
serfs
What words mean the way of knighthood?
Page/squire/knigt
What word means to be honest, loyal, generous, protect noble women, respect the church, and honor concubines?
Chivalry
What word means to cut of someone from sacraments and religious services?
Excommunicate
What word means the suspension of public church services and sacraments in a given location?
Interdict
What word means that Christ made Peter the 1st pope and gave him the supreme authority over the church?
Petrine theory
What word means the church court designed to stamp out heresy using fear and torture?
Inquisition
What word means no one, even the king is above the law? 1215
Magna Carta
What is the house of common (lord) with the power of the purse?
Parliament
What word means a plea from the Byzantines to help against the Muslim Turks?
Crusades
What word means a trade organization to regulate the business activity of a town?
Guild
What word means an attempt to reconcile Greek Philosophy and the Bible, organizing scripture into systematic doctrines?
Scholasticism
What word means catholic warriors that reclaimed land from Moors?
Reconquista
What word means the rebirth, the time of European history from the 14th century to the 16th century with the revival of learning?
Renaissance
What word means movement protesting the corruption in the Roman Catholic Church and emphasizing the Bible as the source of truth?
Reformation
What word means a purchased certificate granting pardon from sins?
Indulgences
What word means member of follower of any of the Western
1 Christian churches that are separate from the Roman Catholic Church and follow the protestant principles?
Protestant
