World History 1st Semester Final

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

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

The basic precepts of Islam.

An estimated guess?

The doctrines of Buddha.

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

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

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

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

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

A god or goddess

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

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

The rebirth of a soul in a new body?

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

Founder of Buddhism

Trained to live or work for humans?

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

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

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

Painted the Sistine Chapel in Rome. 

Ruling family?

A person who copies out documents?

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

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

Savior sent by God?

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

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

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

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

The Arabic book of prayer.

A pictorial symbol for a word or phrase?

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

The single spiritual power that resides in all things?

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

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

A government headed by a privileged minority or upper class?

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

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

The name given to the Islamic God.

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

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

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

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

Manufactured the first movable type printing press.

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

A divine being in the Shinto religion.

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

The act of annulling something.

The source of the Christian religion.

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

Believing that there is only one God?

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

The founder of Confucianism.

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

The rules that lay as guidelines for Christians. 

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

A person who creates maps

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

A rectangular stepped tower, sometimes surmounted by a temple?

Made a telescope and proposed that our galaxy was heliocentric. 

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

Founder of Islam

Group of states or territories controlled by one ruler?

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

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

Writing consisting of hieroglyphs?

European noble who served as a mounted warrior?

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

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

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

The science or practice of farming?

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

An archangel and the intermediary between God and Muhammad.

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

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

Skilled crafts person?

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

A government in which the people hold ruling power?

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

Believing that there are multiple Gods?

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

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

Sail all the way around (especially the world)?

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

A Muslim place of worship.

Having or representing the sun as the center.

To recognize a person as a saint?

The cultural rebirth that occurred in Europe?

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

A system of ranking groups?

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

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

An unchangeable social group into which a person is born?

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

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

A ruler in ancient Egypt?

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

A code of conduct for knights during the Middle Ages?

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