MAC's 1st Semester History Test

Skilled crafts person?

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

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

The Arabic book of prayer.

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

The name given to the Islamic God.

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

An estimated guess?

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

Savior sent by God?

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

Founder of Islam

The doctrines of Buddha.

Believing that there is only one God?

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

Manufactured the first movable type printing press.

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

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

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

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

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

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

A god or goddess

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

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

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

An archangel and the intermediary between God and Muhammad.

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

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

Believing that there are multiple Gods?

Group of states or territories controlled by one ruler?

A code of conduct for knights during the Middle Ages?

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

Having or representing the sun as the center.

The rules that lay as guidelines for Christians. 

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

To recognize a person as a saint?

A government headed by a privileged minority or upper class?

Sail all the way around (especially the world)?

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

A person who copies out documents?

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

The single spiritual power that resides in all things?

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

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

The act of annulling something.

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

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

A pictorial symbol for a word or phrase?

A rectangular stepped tower, sometimes surmounted by a temple?

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

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

Writing consisting of hieroglyphs?

The basic precepts of Islam.

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

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

The source of the Christian religion.

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

European noble who served as a mounted warrior?

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

The science or practice of farming?

A Muslim place of worship.

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

The rebirth of a soul in a new body?

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

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

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

Trained to live or work for humans?

A divine being in the Shinto religion.

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

Made a telescope and proposed that our galaxy was heliocentric. 

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

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

A system of ranking groups?

A person who creates maps

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

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

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

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

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

A government in which the people hold ruling power?

An unchangeable social group into which a person is born?

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

The cultural rebirth that occurred in Europe?

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

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

Ruling family?

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

The founder of Confucianism.

Founder of Buddhism

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

Painted the Sistine Chapel in Rome. 

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

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

A ruler in ancient Egypt?

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

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

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

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

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