World Midterm Review Quiz!

Question 1

Sculptural pose in which the human figured is poised so that the weight rest on 1 leg, w/ the other leg bent at the knee

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contrapposto

Question 2

Artistic technique of painting on wet plaster which produces brighter and longer lasting works

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fresco

Question 3

Painted the ceiling of Sistine Chapel

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Michelangelo

Question 4

God has already decided who he would save is ___

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predestination

Question 5

What is the Hajj?

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pilgrimage to Mecca

Question 6

Major author of the Encyclopedia

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Diderot

Question 7

Wrote A Vindication of Rights of Women and believed that men and women were equal

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Mary Wollstonecraft

Question 8

Wrote a guide for Renaissance men and women called The Courtier

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Castiglione

Question 9

Believed in separation of powers, checks and balances in which he wrote in Spirit of the Laws

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Montesquieu

Question 10

Inductive Method & Scientific Method

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Bacon

Question 11

Young conquistador that conquered the Incan Empire

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Francisco Pizarro

Question 12

Belief in the existence of a supreme being, specifically of a creator who does not intervene in the universe.

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Deism

Question 13

Improved the telescope and supported Copernicus’s heliocentric theory

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Galileo

Question 14

He is a prophet for Allah

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Muhammad

Question 15

Believed in predestination and established a theocracy

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Calvin

Question 16

Christian humanist that attacked corruption in Church in Praise of Folly

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Erasmus

Question 17

Explorer credited with being the first to circumnavigate the world

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Ferdinand Magellan

Question 18

This treaty established an imaginary north-south line that determine Spain and Portugal’s land

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Treaty of Tordesillas

Question 19

He wrote a Wealth of Nations and ushered in capitalism

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Adam Smith

Question 20

Proposed the Laws of Gravity and motion

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Newton

Question 21

New business practices that flourished in 16th-17th century with colonial wealth-Emphasis on exportation of goods

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mercantilism

Question 22

Artists were supported by wealthy people such as Medici family known as ___

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Patrons

Question 23

He was a giver of law code and most famous ruler of the Ottoman Empire

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Sulieman I

Question 24

Sculptor of David which was the first free standing nude since Greek/Roman times

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Donatello

Question 25

In Portugal, I supported many expeditions to the New World and even established a school

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Prince Henry the Navigator

Question 26

Original “Renaissance Man”

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da Vinci

Question 27

Wrote a political treatise advising rulers how to gain and maintain power called The Prince

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Machiavelli

Question 28

He believed government is a contract between people and their rulers in The Social Contract

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Rousseau

Question 29

Known as “Virgin Queen” and oversaw development of Protestantism in England

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Elizabeth I

Question 30

I wrote Book of City of Ladies which argued for equality of sexes

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Christine de Pizan

Question 31

Believed that people are born with rights of “life, liberty and property”

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Locke

Question 32

Philosopher that posited the theory of geocentric universe

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Ptolemy

World Midterm Review Quiz!

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World Midterm Review Quiz!

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