World History Midterm Section 2 (People and Define)

Question 1

Clovis

Answer 1

unified the franks, led the franks to christianity, his wife secretly baptized their two children, he did not divorce or murder her

Question 2

Martin Luther

Answer 2

Wrote the 95 theses started the protestant reformation

Question 3

John Locke

Answer 3

Government is needed to protect the natural rights of life, liberty, property

Question 4

Robert Walpole

Answer 4

First prime minister in Britain

Question 5

Thomas Hobbes

Answer 5

Introduced Absolutism

Question 6

Louis XIV - “The Sun King”

Answer 6

Longest reign in french history, believed in divine right of kings, had absolutism in France

Question 7

Issac Newton

Answer 7

First to describe the concept of gravity, optics and calculus

Question 8

Unum Sanctum

Answer 8

All christians are subject to the will of the pope

Question 9

Transubstantiation

Answer 9

Bread and wine becomes the body and blood of Jesus

Question 10

Indulgences

Answer 10

the remission of the obligation to perform a work of satisfaction for a sin

Question 11

Divine Right of Kings

Answer 11

Kings rules from God, not by the peoples consent

Question 12

Geocentric and Heliocentric

Answer 12

-All of space revolves around the earth
-All planets revolved around the sun

Question 13

Glorious Revolution

Answer 13

William lll and Mary ll were asked to house arrest her father because he was going to raise his son catholic and they can’t have a catholic leader. It had not bloodshed which is why it is called the glorious revolution.

Question 14

Pragmatic Sanction

Answer 14

Charles the 6th wants to be sure that his daughter theresa would get land and power from him

Question 15

Instrument of Government

Answer 15

The first successful written constitution in english

Question 16

Mercantilism

Answer 16

Economic nationalism to build a wealthy and powerful nation

Question 17

Charlemagne

Answer 17

the first holy roman emperor

Question 18

Joan of Arc

Answer 18

She believed that she had a mission from God, and that mission was to make Charles 7th king. Later she was in a war with them and they won. Later she was then captured and burned at a stake. Years later it was found out that she was actually innocent, and those who burned her regretted their decision.

Question 19

Bartolome de las casas

Answer 19

the missionary who had a conversion to not own slaves