Quarter Two Flashcards
Who was Suleiman?
Leader of the Ottoman Turks
Who was Zwingli?
A Swiss reformer who persecuted the Swiss Brethren
Who started the Mughal Dynasty of India?
Babur
Who was Babur’s grandson who brought stability of India?
Akbar
Who built the Taj Mahal and why?
Shah Jahan as a tomb for his wife
Did Ismail of Persia have a Shiite or Sunni tutor?
Shiite
Where did Leonardo da Vinci die?
In France
What pope asked Michelangelo to paint the Sistine chapel?
Pope Julius
Who was Johann Tetzel?
He collected indulgences for the pope
Who was married six times?
Henry VIII
Who was sultan/ruler of the Ottoman Empire?
Suleimann
What happened to Sir Thomas More?
He was wrongly executed for treason
Who was Titian?
Famous painter in Venice
Who wrote Institutes of the Christian Religion?
John Calvin
Where was John Calvin born?
France
Where did Calvin live and work?
Geneva, Switzerland
Who was the Lion of Mali?
Sundiata
Who wrote Utopia?
Sir Thomas More
Who asked John Calvin to assist him in ministry in Geneva?
William Farel
Who tried to reform nuns of her convent by insisting on absolute poverty?
Teresa of Avila
Who married a Byzantine princess?
Ivan the Great
Who made peace with the King of Naples?
Lorenzo de Medici
Who turned the kingdom of Mali into an empire?
Sundiata
Who made Tabriz the capital of Persia?
Ismail
Who was known for painting with abundance and variety?
da Vinci
Who sculpted the marble statue of David?
Michelangelo
Who defeated Montezuma and killed the Aztecs?
Hernan Cortes
Who sailed all the way around the world aboard the Victoria?
Elcano
Who is known as the Father of the English Bible?
Tyndale
What happened to Tyndale?
He was burned at the stake for translating the Bible into English
What theory did Copernicus propose?
The Heliocentric principle–the theory that the planets revolve around the sun
Who was Bloody Mary?
Daughter of Henry VIII, Catholic Queen of England who had 300 people killed
Who was Elizabeth I?
Second daughter of Henry VIII, Protestant Queen of England for 50 years.