Test 5 Flashcards
Luther posted the Ninety-five Theses on October 31 of what year?
1517
Joan of Arc, a _______ peasant girl, won several minor battles in the Hundred Years’ War.
French
Who were the most important Indian civilization in South America?
Incas
Who was a Protestant leader in the Swiss city of Zurich?
Ulrich Zwingli
Henry II established the ________ line of kings in England.
Plantagenet
The Line of Demarcation divided control of the New World between _______ and Spain.
Portugal
Who wrote the important Christian work Institutes of the Christian Religion?
John Calvin
William the Conqueror defeated Harold Godwin of England in what year?
1066
Whose most famous hymn is “A Mighty Fortress Is Our God.”
Martin Luther
What did the Battle of Bosworth Field end?
War of the Roses
Who is considered the first great king of England?
Alfred
When did King John sign the Magna Carta?
1215
What is the French version of Parliament called?
Estates-General
What edict declared Luther a heretic and ordered his works burned?
Edict of Worms
Name the scholar of the Northern Renaissance that published the first printed edition of the Greek New Testament.
Desiderius Erasmus
What Protestant reformer is most known for his work in Geneva?
John Calvin
Who discovered the Pacific Ocean?
Vasco de Balboa
Who was the only woman to be both queen of England and queen of France?
Eleanor of Aquitaine
Who invaded Spain in A.D, 711, establishing Cordova as their capital?
the Moors (Muslims)
What venetian trader traveled to the Orient and explored the Far East?
Marco Polo
Who called the first meeting of Parliament in England?
Simon de Montfort
Who discovered Brazil?
Pedro Cabral
Who was the first great king of France?
Hugh Capet
Who discovered the St. Lawrence River?
Jacques Cartier
Who was the first European to reach the Far East by sea?
Vasco de Gama
Whose crew circumnavigated the globe?
Ferdinand Magellan
Who conquered the Aztecs?
Hernando Cortes
Who explored for England?
John Cabot
Who translated the Vulgate into French?
Jacques Lefevre d’Etaples
Who discovered Florida?
Ponce de Leon
The king known for his “Charter of Liberties” was _____ of England.
Henry I
Crecy, Poitiers, and ________ were victories for the English in the Hundred Years War.
Agincourt
The first printed English translation of the New Testament was done by ______.
William Tyndale
Which New World civilization was the most powerful at the beginning of the Age of Exploration?
Aztec
Who was the first king of Portugal?
Henriques
Who was Katharina von Bora?
Martin Luther’s wife
El Cid was a national hero in _______.
Spain
Why did the Crusades help bring about the Age of Exploration?
New goods brought back from the Orient made Europeans desirous of an all-water route to the East and Oriental ideas in the fields of mathematics and navigation prompted and interest in the East.
Who realized that man is saved by faith in Christ, not by works or man-made systems of grace?
Martin Luther
The Wars of the Roses were fought between what two houses of England?
Lancaster and York
Who was Menno Simons?
Anabaptist preacher
Name the great Danish ruler of England who also ruled Denmark and Norway.
Canute
Why is the Magna Carta considered to be such an important document to constitutional government?
It established many precedents of freedom, such as trial by jury and habeas corpus
where Luther hid as Knight George
Wartburg Castle
wandering poets who told epic tales
scops
William’s record of the census
Domesday Book
excused a person from penance or purgatory
indulgences
called for by Edward I
Model Parliament
site of Luther’s Ninety-five Theses, which sparked the Reformation
Wittenberg
drove the Moors out of Spain
Reconquista
