S2 Exam

Bi Sheng developed a printing method that used movable type.

What new set of laws the English set down in 1689 strengthened the power of the people and their Parliament?

Ptolemy said that heavier objects fall to the ground faster than lighter ones.

What is the name of the theory that all of the planets revolve around the sun?

Who believed that the Bible contained all religious truth?

Who ruled during the Heian Empire?

An indulgence is an official pardon for a sin given by the pope in return for money

What group took control of the Holy Land in the A.D. 1000s and closed pilgrimage routes to Jerusalem

The Middle Ages lasted from around A.D. 500-1500

Who was a Frenchman who expressed an optimistic faith in reason and progress?

What is the name of a person who journeys to a sacred place?

What was the name of the book that Thomas Hobbes published?

What are 2 things that Johannes Gutenberg created?

What was a farm worker called who was considered part of the manor where he or she worked?

A person who wanted to become a member of a guild had to apprentice a master of a trade for 3 years.

Who was a German Astronomer who used his data to support that the planets move around the sun in an elliptical orbit?

Tang rulers made advances in the government and expanded the merit system of hiring government officials.

Leviathan was the name of the book that Cesare Beccaria wrote which he argued against brutal punishments

 Who ruled China from 206 B.C. to A.D. 220?

The 3 laws of Planetary Motion is most important law that Isacc Newton introduced

What is a series of military dynasties that were set up by Minamoto Yoritomo?

Reason means to use logical thinking and not superstition.

The Last Supper is the name of Leonardo da Vinci's most famous work of art in the world

Who believed in predestination

The Renaissance moved northward into western and Northern Europe from Italy

Kabuki Theater combined drama, dance, music, and was popular in China.

Who isolated Japan because they were worried they would be conquered by European warriors?

What is the term that refers to Christian groups that separated from the Catholic Church?

Whose idea was it that a person accused of a crime should get a fair and speedy trial

Merit system is a system in which poor people are legally bound to work for wealthy landowners.

John Calvin wrote a document to challenge the Church, and posted it on the Church at Wittenberg to begin the Reformation

The Magna Carta is a series of conflicts between England and France between 1337 and 1453

The Vikings were the name of the group that invaded Western Europe and claimed the area of Gaul

Who was an English politician is the foundation of the scientific method that is the foundation for scientific method?

Who was the first great humanist who loved the works of Cicero and other Roman writers?

What year did John become king

Medieval art was usually religious and the images were very flat

Who believed that governments were created to protect people from their selfishness?

What religion accepts many gods and worships a supreme being?

The writings from Marco Polo sparked increased trade between Europe and China.

In medieval Europe, what disease was spread by the fleas that lived on rats that thrived in unsanitary towns?

Kublai Khan taught that all people had duties and responsibilities. 

Who was a painter and master of woodcuts and engravings who was deeply impacted by the Italian Renaissance firsthand?

What things can unite people of a nation?

What country is located in the Pacific Ocean and was formed by volcanoes?

Who founded the Mughal Empire?

Who would listen to people confess their sins, and forgive them of the wrongs they confessed?

who was a preacher who told people they could receive an indulgence if they contributed to the church?

Absolutism is the belief in absolute principles in political, philosophical, ethical, or theological matters

What do we celebrate today as a great artistic achievement?

People who didn't obey the Church were threatened with being excommunicated.

 Who united the north and south of China for the first time in centuries. 

What did the Magna Carta do?

Who was a painter who was a master of realistic portraits?

What 2 new weapons increased the importance of foot soldiers during the Middle Ages?

Natural rights are the rights that people have simply for being human

What were the people who carried the Christian cross into battle against non-Christian enemies?

Who was influenced by Plato and Aristotle and wrote Utopia

 Which dynasty was a golden age of political and cultural achievements?

Who allowed Hindus to practice their religion freely and ended unfair taxing of non-muslims?

What main source(s) did Europeans rely on for their understanding of nature before modern science?

Gargantua and Pantagruel is a tale that uses comedy to express the ideas of humanism

What is the form of government in which the king's power is limited by a basic set of laws, or Constitution?