World History 1st Semester Final

Ruling family?

The Arabic book of prayer.

Savior sent by God?

The first agricultural revolution, from hunting and gathering to agriculture and settlement.

A region of Asia  Asia between the lower and middle reaches of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.

The source of the Christian religion.

The name given to the Islamic God.

European noble who served as a mounted warrior?

Wrote a guide called "The Prince" on how to gain and maintain power.

A government in which the people hold ruling power?

To recognize a person as a saint?

Skilled crafts person?

A government in which most of the important decisions are made by state officials?

The founder of Confucianism.

Painted the Sistine Chapel in Rome. 

The language or dialect spoken by the ordinary people in a particular country or region.

A belief or set of beliefs held and taught by a church, political party, or other group.

Believing that there is only one God?

Group of states or territories controlled by one ruler?

A divine being in the Shinto religion.

He was king of Babylonia; wrote of one of the earliest known codes of law.(Hammurabi's Code)

A sovereign head of state, especially a king, queen, or emperor.

The single spiritual power that resides in all things?

A movement for the reform of abuses in the Roman Catholic Church 

A person sent on a religious mission, (one sent to promote Christianity in a foreign country).

Political unit that includes a city and its surrounding land and villages?

A city state in ancient Greece, considered in its ideal form for philosophical purposes?

A person who gives financial or other support to a person, organization, cause, or activity.

A pictorial symbol for a word or phrase?

A ruler in ancient Egypt?

The act of annulling something.

Conclusion from the Roman Catholic Church as a penalty for refusing to obey church law?

Started the English conversion from Catholicism because he wanted his marriage annulled. 

religious ceremony from the Christian Church that's regarded as an outward sign of inward grace

Queen of England who made a compromise between the Protestant and Catholic practices.

A part of a city, especially a slum area, occupied by a minority group or groups.

The bishop of Rome as head of the Roman Catholic Church.

A cathedral in London, England: designed by Sir Christopher Wren.

The second part of the Christian Bible that follows the life and teachings of Jesus.

Having or representing the sun as the center.

A movement at the heart of the Renaissance that focused on education and the classics?

A code of conduct for knights during the Middle Ages?

Slips of paper that the Catholic Church sold that would relinquish you from sin. 

An unchangeable social group into which a person is born?

An agreement or a settlement of a dispute that is reached by each side making concessions.

An object made by a human being, typically an item of cultural or historical interest?

Modeled on or aiming for a state in which everything is perfect; idealistic?

English poet and playwrite whose works embodied and explored the ideals of the Renaissance.

Greek philosopher; student to Socrates; considered the initiator of western philosophy. 

Trained to live or work for humans?

A Greek epic poem describing the siege of Troy, ascribed to Homer.

Statesman/leader who contributed greatly to Athens' political andcultural supremacy in Greece.

A person who copies out documents?

A person who creates maps

A person regarded as an inspired teacher or proclaimer of the will of God?

The doctrines of Buddha.

Theory that the human habits and characteristics are shaped by geographic conditions.

A rectangular stepped tower, sometimes surmounted by a temple?

A Muslim place of worship.

Manufactured the first movable type printing press.

Believing that there are multiple Gods?

Denoting attitudes, activities, or other things that have no religious or spiritual basis.

An estate on which crops such as coffee, sugar, and tobacco are cultivated by resident labor.

The sum of a person's actions viewed as deciding their fate in future existences?

The science or practice of farming?

A method of procedure that has characterized natural science since the 17th century?

The idea that whether or not you get into heaven has already been decided. 

A transcendent state in which there is neither suffering, desire, nor sense of self?

A body of troops or police officers, standing or moving in close formation.

Belief that a ruler's authority comes directly from God?

This was written by Plato to explain the nature of reality.

The whole body of traditional Jewish teaching, including the Oral Law.

Athenian philosopher who was given death for 'corrupting the youth'. Killed by drinking Hemlock

The stage of human social development and organization that is considered most advanced?

The rebirth of a soul in a new body?

Founder of the ancient Hebrew nation; first of the great Biblical patriarchs.

A system of ranking groups?

Wrote the 95 Thesis because he disagreed with the Roman Catholic Church selling indulgences.

Founder of Islam

The spread of ideas, customs, and technologies from one people to another.

In the ancient Middle East, a system of writing that used wedged-shaped marks.

A person who devotes his or her life to seeking direct comunion with divine forces?

Writing consisting of hieroglyphs?

A primate of a family ( Hominidae ) that includes humans and their fossil ancestors.

Sail all the way around (especially the world)?

This was written my Martin Luther to show his disapproval of the selling of indulgences.

Made a telescope and proposed that our galaxy was heliocentric. 

An estimated guess?

A person who moves from place to place in search of food?

An archangel and the intermediary between God and Muhammad.

A person engaged or learned in philosophy, especially as an academic discipline. 

The basic precepts of Islam.

Dividing a job into many parts, with a single worker or a few workers assigned to each part?

A god or goddess

Founder of Buddhism

The rules that lay as guidelines for Christians. 

The discourse that Jesus taught to others about the fundamentals of Christian teaching.

A government headed by a privileged minority or upper class?

A  system of government in which priests rule in the name of God or a god.?

The cultural rebirth that occurred in Europe?