WH midterm review/study guide Flashcards
Beginning of recorded history (4000 B.C.) Fall of Rome (AD 500)
Ancient history
Fall of rome (A.D, 500)- Protestant Refromation (A.D. 1517)
Medieval History
The beginning of the protestant refromation to present time
Modern History
Man “evolved” from animals: removes God as creator
evolution
God’s supreme power over all nations,rulers,and individuals of a government
God’s Sovreignty
the attempt of man to exalt himself over God
Humanism
large group of people that think of themselves as one and act in history as a single entity
Nation
the focal point of all history
life of Christ
what is the location of the garden of eden
fertile cresent
what people were the first to use education
sumerians
the way of life of a group of people
culture
what was the sumerian writing before written language
cuneiform
greek name for the “land between the rivers”
mesopotamia
First to rule after Sumer; Central portion of the Fertile Crescent
Old Babylonian
rule officially started the old Babylonian empire
Hammurabi
First empire to use iron weapons
Hittites
Captured Northern Kingdom of Israel
Assyrians
built the world’s 1st great library
Ashburnipal
conquered the Fertile Crescent & Southern Israel
Nebuchadnezzer
what nations ruler was under the law
persia
conquered Babylon
Cyrus the Great
was a main highway for trade & travel
Israel
Father of the nation of Israel
Abraham
2nd King of Israel (after Saul)
David
David’s son
Solomon
the religon of mohamed
islam
the “god” of islam
Mohammed
largest continent
asia
subcontinent
india
mountain range that surrounds india
Himalayas
First people of india
aryans
the religon of india in which Becoming one with the spirit of Brahma, the of universal soul of all living things is the goal
hinduism
the system of classes in india
caste system
native indian family that controlled india from 321 bc to 184 bc
Mauyra
greatest leader of the maurya
ashoka
who created buddism
Siddharthu Gautama
indias “golden age” empire
gupta
Who was the first to rule over a united china
Shih Huang Ti
What was the largest continental empire
Mongal
brought egypt to the height of its power
Amenhotep
who gave egypt its nicknames
herodotus
the greatest ancient civilization in Africa’s interior
cush
The greatest ruler of the Mali Empire
Mansa Musa
the belief that natural objects and forces are inhabited by mostly malignant spirits
aminism
First important post-diluvian civilization in greece
minoans
what people grouped lived on mycenae on the main land
Mycenaeans
whose stories and ideas became the basis of greek religon
homer
General who blocked the persians for a while with 300 men
Leonidas
who brought true democracy to athens
pericles
Sparta V. Athens
Pelopennesian war
city state
polis
aristotle’s student
Alexander the great
last stretch of wars before rome became the greatest nation
punic wars
man that attempted to use elephants in war and attacked rome from the north
hannibal
guy that was scared of julius
pompey
the new testament called octavian what
ceaser augustus
ruled the empire during the earthly ministry of Jesus Christ and at the time of the Savior’s death, resurrection, and ascension around A.D. 30
Tiberius
the 200 years of roman peace
pax romana
who won the civil war after diocletian died
constantine
who burned rome then blamed the christians
Nero
bishop of Antioch, who was taken to Rome in A.D. 110 and thrown to wild beasts in the Colosseum
ignatious
declared: “The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.”
tertullian
formed the eoc
Byzantine
1st great emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire
Justinian I
1st recognized as supreme over the Roman Catholic Church (445)
Leo 1
Translated the Bible from Latin into English
John Wycliffe
used christianity as a political tool
clovis
first empire in europe after the fall of rome
Franks
Crowned Emperor of the New Roman Empire on Christmas Day in 800 by Pope Leo III
Charlamagne
Crowned Emperor of the Romans in 962 starting the Holy Roman Empire
Otto the great
wrote Divine Comedy about a vision he had of heaven, hell, & purgatory
dante
Catholic professor from Bohemia
John Huss
Catholic church meeting that executed
Council of Constance
king of wessex who defeated the danes and confined them to danelaw, 1st great king of england
alfred the great
grandson of Henry I who started the Plantagenet Line of kings
Henry II
Arrested Boniface which began the “Babylonian Captivity of the Papacy”
Philip IV
argued with Philip the fair for land in france
Boniface VIII
started a school for navigation and exploration
Prince Henry the Navigator
taught that the Catholic church was “distorting” God’s Word
erasmus
French Protestant Reformation leader
John Calvin
Son of Charles V
Fanatical support of the church led to his failed invasion of England (1588)
Phillip II
led Protestants in their fight vs. the Catholics
Gaspard de Coligny
aided the protestants during the 30 years war
Gustavus Adolphus
peace treaty that ended the war in 1648; did not change anything from before the war
Peace of Westphilia
German astronomer who discovered 3 laws of planetary motion
Johanes kepler
“Father of Microbiology
Anton von Leeuwenhoek
best known for the oratorio, Wrote the Messiah
George H. Handel
