World History Midterm Exam

In part because of the iconoclast controversy, the Christian Church in the 11th Century split into…

The special court used by the Catholic Church to punish heretics was the?

What geographic advantage did Constantinople have?

German monk and professor of theology who triggered the revolt against the Catholic Church

Intellectual movement during the Italian Renaissance

How did the Black Plague affect medieval populations?

What is Absolutism?

Denis Diderot, Co-wrote the encyclopedia

What countries that have Absolute Rulers in the age of Absolutism?

What were the Crusades?

The enlightenment was spurred on by all of the following except?

What are the basic tenets of the Islamic faith?

What were European Crisis in 1560s-1650s?

This king took over the Church in his country after the Pope refused to annul his marriage?

Mary Wollstonecraft promoted Male Rights over Female Rights

Logical thinking was called rationalism

Who believed that men were evil, Solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short | Saw government as a way to control men

Mary Wollstonecraft promoted female rights

Using its Janissaries and gunpowder, which Empire captured Constantinople in 1453?

What was the conflict between the Pope and monarchs in Medieval Europe involving secular power

Absolute Monarchs had checks and Balances ?

The only civilization in the Americas to have a written language and be literate prior to European exploration

What is not a way rulers keep power?

What was the main goal of the Counter Reformation?

The rebirth of classical Greek and Roman art, architecture, and literature?

Renown Muslim mathmetician and father of al-jabr or Algebra

Which civilization in the Americas built their capital on an island in the middle

What was Luther’s main criticism of the Catholic Church?

In his speech, in 1095, Pope Urban, inspired the European people to do what?

What are the Byzantine contributions to art and learning?

The statement, “The just shall live by faith,” is associated with which Reformation leader?

Greatest ruler of the kingdom of Mali expanded the kingdom, worked to ensure peace and order based his system of justice

Absolutism is a form of government?

Who is the only person, according to Luther, who can grant salvation?

What is Machiavelli’s general view of people?

Who is most closely associated with “predestination”, the idea that God determines the fate of every person?

Who saw man as capable of rationally thinking and coexisting, that government preserves natural law.

Dominant figure in Scholasticism and author of Summa Theologica

What was a major goal of the Justinian Code of Laws?

What is Devine Right?

This German astronomer calculated the orbits of the planets revolving around the sun?

Which of the following is a difference between Mayan and Incan culture?

Absolutism is a form of economics?

Prior to European exploration, which American civilization used terrace farming as a means of innovations?

In keeping with the Magna Carta English rulers, Edward I, often summoned England’s legislature known as?

Head physician in Baghdad’s hospital, he pioneered the study of measles and smallpox.

How did Mansa Musa’s Kingdom in West Africa show that African societies were considered complex?

Limited Monarchs has checks and balances?

What was the main source of Western African kingdom’s wealth and power?

Baron De Montesquieu, Described a perfect government in his book promoting the ideas of checks and balences.

What was one reason for the Great Schism in Christianity?

This document first produced the legal concepts of due process of law and habeas corpus

Who Helped create scientific method?

Absolutism had only centralized governments.

After Constantine moved the capital of Rome to the Greek town of Byzantium; the Eastern Roman Empire became known as?

Francois aka Voltaire critized the French Gov. and Championed religious freedom and thought

What role did the Church play in Medieval Europe?