Test 6 Flashcards
Who painted the Sistine Chapel?
Michelangelo
Who was the great statesman of ancient Athens?
Pericles
Who was the “Morning Star of the Reformation”?
John Wycliffe
Who was the founder of Islam?
Mohammed
Who led war elephants against Rome?
Hannibal
Who was the great empire builder in Africa?
Mansa Musa
An Egyptian pharaoh
Tutankhamen
Who was the early church father and Christian martyr?
Tertullian
Who was the Danish king of England?
Canute
Who created an ancient law code in Babylon?
Hammurabi
_______ became an Egyptian center of life.
Cairo
Who is remembered as the “Father of Modern Science”?
Isaac Newton
Who was called “Bloody Mary” for her vicious persecutions of English Protestants?
Mary Tudor
Who was the builder of the world’s first empire?
Nimrod
Babar established the ______ Empire in India.
Mogul
The Council of Nicaea ________ the teachings of Arianism.
rejected
Shinto is the oldest surviving religion of ______.
Japan
Empress Theodora was very influential in ________ famous law code.
Justinian’s
Who is best remembered for his work “Praying Hands”?
Albrecht Durer
Who won the Punic Wars?
Rome
Mount _______ is the highest mountain in Africa.
Kilimanjaro
Who discovered Brazil while exploring for the Portuguese?
Pedro Cabral
Hernando Cortes is known for conquering the ______ Indians of Mexico.
Aztec
Who was the first Roman emperor to persecute Christians?
Nero
The Greek gods supposedly lived on Mt. _______ in northern Greece.
Olympus
Who wrote “Don Quixote”?
Miguel de Cervantes
Who proposed the heliocentric view of the universe?
Nicolaus Copernicus
Who was the “Father of Dutch Liberties”?
William of Orange
Who discovered three laws of planetary motion?
Johannes Kepler
Who was the child genius who wrote “The Magic Flute”?
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Who was the great musician who wrote “Moonlight Sonata”?
Ludwig van Beethoven
Who was a Lutheran warrior-king?
Gustavus Adolphus
Who wrote all music “to the glory of God”?
Johann Sebastian Bach
Who was the great Dutch painter?
Rembrandt van Rijn
Who was the French Protestant leader?
Gaspard de Coligny
What is the piece of land in feudalism called?
fief