MAC's 1st Semester History Test

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

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

A person who copies out documents?

The name given to the Islamic God.

The source of the Christian religion.

Trained to live or work for humans?

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

Believing that there are multiple Gods?

Sail all the way around (especially the world)?

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

The doctrines of Buddha.

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

Believing that there is only one God?

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

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

An estimated guess?

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

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

The cultural rebirth that occurred in Europe?

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

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

Founder of Buddhism

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 act of annulling something.

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

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

A government headed by a privileged minority or upper class?

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

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

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

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

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

A pictorial symbol for a word or phrase?

A code of conduct for knights during the Middle Ages?

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

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

A government in which the people hold ruling power?

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

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

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

Writing consisting of hieroglyphs?

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

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

Founder of Islam

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

The science or practice of farming?

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

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

A ruler in ancient Egypt?

A god or goddess

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

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

A person who creates maps

Manufactured the first movable type printing press.

Skilled crafts person?

A system of ranking groups?

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

To recognize a person as a saint?

The Arabic book of prayer.

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

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

Having or representing the sun as the center.

The single spiritual power that resides in all things?

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

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

Savior sent by God?

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

Group of states or territories controlled by one ruler?

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

An unchangeable social group into which a person is born?

A rectangular stepped tower, sometimes surmounted by a temple?

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

The rebirth of a soul in a new body?

Painted the Sistine Chapel in Rome. 

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?

An archangel and the intermediary between God and Muhammad.

The basic precepts of Islam.

The rules that lay as guidelines for Christians. 

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

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

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

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

European noble who served as a mounted warrior?

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

A Muslim place of worship.

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

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

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

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

The founder of Confucianism.

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

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

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

Ruling family?

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

A divine being in the Shinto religion.

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

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