S2 Exam

What is the form of government in which the king's power is limited by a basic set of laws, or Constitution?

Medieval art was usually religious and the images were very flat

Ptolemy said that heavier objects fall to the ground faster than lighter ones.

What main source(s) did Europeans rely on for their understanding of nature before modern science?

The 3 laws of Planetary Motion is most important law that Isacc Newton introduced

What do we celebrate today as a great artistic achievement?

What religion accepts many gods and worships a supreme being?

Whose idea was it that a person accused of a crime should get a fair and speedy trial

Who was a painter and master of woodcuts and engravings who was deeply impacted by the Italian Renaissance firsthand?

 Which dynasty was a golden age of political and cultural achievements?

who was a preacher who told people they could receive an indulgence if they contributed to the church?

The writings from Marco Polo sparked increased trade between Europe and China.

Who was a painter who was a master of realistic portraits?

Who allowed Hindus to practice their religion freely and ended unfair taxing of non-muslims?

What is the term that refers to Christian groups that separated from the Catholic Church?

In medieval Europe, what disease was spread by the fleas that lived on rats that thrived in unsanitary towns?

Who believed in predestination

What are 2 things that Johannes Gutenberg created?

Who was a German Astronomer who used his data to support that the planets move around the sun in an elliptical orbit?

Who believed that governments were created to protect people from their selfishness?

An indulgence is an official pardon for a sin given by the pope in return for money

Who was the first great humanist who loved the works of Cicero and other Roman writers?

The Renaissance moved northward into western and Northern Europe from Italy

 Who ruled China from 206 B.C. to A.D. 220?

John Calvin wrote a document to challenge the Church, and posted it on the Church at Wittenberg to begin the Reformation

Tang rulers made advances in the government and expanded the merit system of hiring government officials.

The Last Supper is the name of Leonardo da Vinci's most famous work of art in the world

What things can unite people of a nation?

Who believed that the Bible contained all religious truth?

A person who wanted to become a member of a guild had to apprentice a master of a trade for 3 years.

What country is located in the Pacific Ocean and was formed by volcanoes?

Who isolated Japan because they were worried they would be conquered by European warriors?

What was the name of the book that Thomas Hobbes published?

Who was an English politician is the foundation of the scientific method that is the foundation for scientific method?

Absolutism is the belief in absolute principles in political, philosophical, ethical, or theological matters

What is the name of the theory that all of the planets revolve around the sun?

What is a series of military dynasties that were set up by Minamoto Yoritomo?

What 2 new weapons increased the importance of foot soldiers during the Middle Ages?

Who was influenced by Plato and Aristotle and wrote Utopia

The Vikings were the name of the group that invaded Western Europe and claimed the area of Gaul

People who didn't obey the Church were threatened with being excommunicated.

Kublai Khan taught that all people had duties and responsibilities. 

Bi Sheng developed a printing method that used movable type.

What is the name of a person who journeys to a sacred place?

Natural rights are the rights that people have simply for being human

The Middle Ages lasted from around A.D. 500-1500

What was a farm worker called who was considered part of the manor where he or she worked?

The Magna Carta is a series of conflicts between England and France between 1337 and 1453

What year did John become king

Who was a Frenchman who expressed an optimistic faith in reason and progress?

Gargantua and Pantagruel is a tale that uses comedy to express the ideas of humanism

What were the people who carried the Christian cross into battle against non-Christian enemies?

Kabuki Theater combined drama, dance, music, and was popular in China.

What group took control of the Holy Land in the A.D. 1000s and closed pilgrimage routes to Jerusalem

Who would listen to people confess their sins, and forgive them of the wrongs they confessed?

Merit system is a system in which poor people are legally bound to work for wealthy landowners.

Who founded the Mughal Empire?

What new set of laws the English set down in 1689 strengthened the power of the people and their Parliament?

Leviathan was the name of the book that Cesare Beccaria wrote which he argued against brutal punishments

What did the Magna Carta do?

 Who united the north and south of China for the first time in centuries. 

Reason means to use logical thinking and not superstition.

Who ruled during the Heian Empire?