History test #3 quizzes

From the years 1305-1377 where did popes live?

Why did some authors choose to write in the local vernacular instead of in Latin

Which group lived in the Ohio and Mississippi River valleys and were also known as Mississippians and Mound Builders?

A special class of African storytellers who help keep alive a people's history.

Which European country was the first to experience the Black Death?

Christian humanist, believed Christianity should show ppl how to live good lives not provide beliefs that will save them

Kingdom that great trading state in Africa starting around the year 500  It was located in the upper Niger River valley

ended religious warfare in Germany, Greman states chose between Catholicism and Lutheranism as their official religion

A system of knotted strings used by the Inca people for keeping records.

At its height this empire extended from Ecuador, to Central Chile, to the edge of the Amazon basin.

An artistic technique used to give the effect of three-dimensional depth to two-dimensional surfaces

A person who is believed to have the power to foretell events.

middle class member who lived in a city or town.  This included shopkeepers, artisans, guild masters, and guild members.

When the Aztec first saw Spanish explorers in the 1500s they believed that representatives of this god had returned

The wealthy and powerful Medici family governed this city which was the cultural center of Renaissance Italy

became popular in much of Africa, especially northern Africa, after arriving as a result of trade

Many African communities were organized in extended fam units that combined to a larger community.  What was this called

This group built a system of roads which extended from the border of modern day Colombia to modern day Santiago, Chile

Which of the following was a crop the Moche grew?

What caused the Great Schism in the Catholic church from 1378-1417?

King of Mali, good Muslim, made pilgrimage to Mecca, made the city of Timbuktu a center of Islamic learning and culture

Which of the following was a wealthy and powerful kingdom in Southern Africa from 1300-1450?

Which of the following groups developed a solar calendar of 365 days, which was very similar to the calendar we use now

Which subject was the most highly regarded at universities in medieval Europe?

  Mansa Musa

He wrote The Prince which is a book on how to get and keep political power.

drew lines in Peru's soil to represent animals and shapes  The lines were so large they could only be seen from the air

The Council of Trent affirmed which of the following Catholic teachings

Which of the following is NOT a climate zone in Africa?

Which of the following did not have a strong monarchical authority?

This language is a mixture of the Bantu and Arabic languages.  It allowed African and Arabic traders to communicate

In Italian society what was a mother's chief role?

considered radicals by Catholics & other Protestants, believed in adult baptism following practices of early Christians

What was the goal of a humanist education?

Where was the first European university?

Which of the following was the first Protestant religion?

Calvanists believed in the idea that God had already determined who would be saved and who would be damned

How were Gothic cathedrals different than Romanesque churches?

Which of the following was NOT an element which supported the Catholic Reformation

What event sparked the Hundred Years' War?

King Henry VIII used this to break with the Catholic in 1534, declared himself the head of the new Church of England

Which of the following is associated with the High Renaissance period?

Christians sought salvation by purchasing this, believed that their time spent in purgatory would be reduced

The language of everyday speech in a particular region.

The capital of the Aztec Empire was the city of Tenochtitlan.  What modern day city is located there

 movement based on the study of the humanities, which included grammar, rhetoric, poetry, moral philosophy, and history

Which of the following was Martin Luther protesting?

estab. a farm society in the desert areas of modern day New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, Colorado, using canals & earthen dams

Which of the following was the universal language of medieval civilization?

wrote The Book of the Courtier, explained the ideals that nobles were expected to fulfill in the Renaissance time period