Test 1

Question 1

Forbidden City

Answer 1

The walled section of Beijing where emperors lived between 1121 and 1924. A portion is now a residence for leaders of the People’s Republic of China.

Question 2

Kabuki

Answer 2

a type of Japanese drama in which music, dance, and mime are used to present stories

Question 3

Tycho Brahe

Answer 3

Influenced by Copernicus; Built observatory and collected data on the locations of stars and planets for over 20 years; His limited knowledge of mathematics prevented him from making much sense out of the data.

Question 4

Thomas More

Answer 4

English humanist who wrote Utopia

• a satire about the English elites
• he was a lawyer and lord chancellor

Question 5

Martin Luther

Answer 5

95 Thesis, posted in 1517, led to religious reform in Germany, denied papal power and absolutist rule. Claimed there were only 2 sacraments: baptism and communion.

Question 6

John Calvin

Answer 6

studies law
comes to believe God rescued him from Catholicism
very legalistic theology
-believed in predestination

Question 7

Ulrich Zwingli

Answer 7

studied the Bible, decided Catholic traditions were wrong, did not believe in transubstantiation

Question 8

95 theses

Answer 8

list of grievances against the Catholic Church, written by Martin Luther, which sparked the Protestant Reformation

Question 9

Voltaire

Answer 9

(1694-1778) French philosopher. He believed that freedom of speech was the best weapon against bad government. He also spoke out against the corruption of the French government, and the intolerance of the Catholic Church.

Question 10

John Locke

Answer 10

17th century English philosopher who opposed the Divine Right of Kings and who asserted that people have a natural right to life, liberty, and property.

Question 11

Jean-Jaques Rosseau

Answer 11

A French man who believed that Human beings are naturally good & free & can rely on their instincts. Government should exist to protect common good, and be a democracy

Question 12

Deism

Answer 12

A popular Enlightenment era belief that there is a God, but that God isn’t involved in people’s lives or in revealing truths to prophets.

Question 13

Heliocentric view of the universe

Answer 13

sun is the center of the universe

Question 14

Montesquei

Answer 14

French political philosopher who advocated the separation of executive and legislative and judicial powers (1689-1755)

Question 15

Adam Smith

Answer 15

Scottish economist who wrote the Wealth of Nations a precursor to modern Capitalism.

Question 16

Ming Dynasty

Answer 16

A major dynasty that ruled China from the mid-fourteenth to the mid-seventeenth century. It was marked by a great expansion of Chinese commerce into East Africa, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia

Question 17

Zheng He

Answer 17

An imperial eunuch and Muslim, entrusted by the Ming emperor Yongle with a series of state voyages that took his gigantic ships through the Indian Ocean, from Southeast Asia to Africa.

Question 18

Sakoku

Answer 18

Japan’s self-imposed isolation from the outer world that lasted 2 centuries until 1854

Question 19

Tokugawa Ieyasu

Answer 19

1534-1616, founder of the Tokugawa Shogunate which lasted from 1603 to 1867 and reunified Japan