End of Semester Study Guide

Question 1

What was th Elizabethan Age

Answer 1

Wgen the Renisance moved to England and it was given that name because Queen Elizabeth was in power

Question 2

Where did the Renaissance begin

Answer 2

Italy

Question 3

Where did the Reformation begin

Answer 3

Germany

Question 4

What were the formal statements that Martin Luther wrote attacking the Catholic Churchy

Answer 4

95 Thesus

Question 5

Who had the greatest empire in Mesoamerica

Answer 5

Aztecs

Question 6

Who had the largest empire to ever exist in the Americas

Answer 6

Incas

Question 7

What were the 2cultures that influenced the Renaissance, referred to as the “Classical Heritage”

Answer 7

Rome and Greece

Question 8

What were the 3 branches of Protestant Christianity

Answer 8

Lutheranism
Calvinsim
Anglism

Question 9

Who were the 2 main Christian Humanists at this period of history

Answer 9

Desiderius Erasmus and Thomas Moore

Question 10

What did the presence of gypsim indicate was the likely cause of the collapse of the Maya

Answer 10

Servere drought

Question 11

What was the focus of Christian Humanism

Answer 11

to reform society

Question 12

For what purpose did the Mound Builder cultures build the earthen mounds

Answer 12

to bury the dead and religious purposes

Question 13

What was the Maya calender based on (three things) and uwhat was it used for (give 2 examples)

Answer 13

The calendar was based on the sun and moon and planets it was used best time to plant crops and to know when to appoint a new ruler and when to attack people

Question 14

Why did the Aztecs believe it was nessary to make blood sacrifices to the sun god, Huizilopochtli

Answer 14

they believed that Huizilopochtli needed the nurrishment of blood to fight off evil spirts and make the sun come up in the morning

Question 15

Mughal

Answer 15

nomads who invaded India in the 16th century

Question 16

Safavid Empire

Answer 16

A Shi’ite Muslim dynasty that ruled in Persia between the 16th and 18th centuries

Question 17

Shah

Answer 17

Persian title for king

Question 18

Ghazi

Answer 18

a warrior for Islam

Question 19

Sultan

Answer 19

“Overload” or “one with power”; title for Ottoman rulers during the rise of the Ottoman Empire

Question 20

Devshirme

Answer 20

in the Ottoman Empire, the policy of taking boys from conquered Christian peoples to be trained as Muslim soldiers

Question 21

Janissary

Answer 21

A member of a eliete force of soldiers in the Ottoman Empire

Question 22

Predestination

Answer 22

a doctrine that God has decided all things beforehand, including which people will be eternally saved

Question 23

Theocracy

Answer 23

a government controlled by religious leaders

Question 24

Presbyterian

Answer 24

a member of a Protestant church governed by presbyters (elders), founded on the teachings of John Knox

Question 25

Anabaptist

Answer 25

a group that only baptized who were old enough to decide to be a Christian; also believed the church and state should be separate

Question 26

Indulgence

Answer 26

is a pardon releasing a person from punishment due for sin

Question 27

Reformation

Answer 27

a 16th century movement for religious reform, leading to the founding of the Christian churches that rejected that popes authority

Question 28

Protestant

Answer 28

is a member of the Christian church founded on the principiles of the Reformation

Question 29

Annul

Answer 29

to cancel or set aside

Question 30

Anglican

Answer 30

is relating to the Church of England

Question 31

Renaissance

Answer 31

is a period of European history (1300-1600) during which renewed interest in classical culture led to far reaching changes in art, learning, and views of the world

Question 32

Humanism

Answer 32

is a Renaissance intellectual movement in which thinkers studied classical texts and focused on human potential and achievements

Question 33

Secular

Answer 33

is concerned with worldly rather than spiritual matters

Question 34

Patron

Answer 34

is a person who supports artists, especially financially

Question 35

Perspective

Answer 35

is an artistic technique that creates the appearance of three dimensions on a flat surface

Question 36

Vernacular

Answer 36

everday language of a people in a country (not formal language)

Question 37

Ayllu

Answer 37

the Incan society, a small community or family group whose members worked together for the common good.

Question 38

Mita

Answer 38

Their form of tribute which was forced labor that all subjects in the Incan society had to do

Question 39

Quipu

Answer 39

An arrangment of knotted strings on a cord to record numerical information

Question 40

Obsidian

Answer 40

a hard glassy volcaic rock used by early peoples to make sharp weapons

Question 41

Quetzalcoatl

Answer 41

is the "the feathered serpent"- a god of the Toltecs and other Mesoamerican peoples

Question 42

Glyph

Answer 42

a symbolic picture used as a writing system for writing messages into stone

Question 43

Codex

Answer 43

book with pages that could be turned

Question 44

Popol Vuh

Answer 44

A book containing a version of Mayan creation story

Question 45

Potlatch

Answer 45

ceremonial feast used to display rank and prosperity in some Northwest Coast tribes of Native Americans

Question 46

Pueblo

Answer 46

a village of apartment like buildings made of clay and stone

Question 47

Totem

Answer 47

a animal or other natural object that served as a symbol of unity between clans or other groups of people.