History Midterm

Question 1

In Confucianism, this means the respect of one's parents and ancestors.

Accepted Answer

Filial Piety

Question 2

What were the list of religious rules that Moses recieved?

Accepted Answer

10 Commandments

Question 3

Which French estate was the middle class, tax paying estate?

Accepted Answer

Third Estate

Question 4

Who created the printing press?

Accepted Answer

Johannes Gutenberg

Question 5

Which King was the first French King to be executed?

Accepted Answer

King Louis XVI

Question 6

This large Italian family controlled Florence during the majority of the Renaissance.

Accepted Answer

The Medici Family

Question 7

According to Confucianism, If everyone works hard...

Accepted Answer

China will prosper

Question 8

According to the Hebrew Bible, who was willing to sacrifice their son, Isaac, to God?

Accepted Answer

Abraham

Question 9

Which religion incorporates the caste system?

Accepted Answer

Hinduism

Question 10

Which Dynasty created the Mandate of Heaven?

Accepted Answer

Zhou Dynasty

Question 11

What are some architectural signs that a building is a Mosque?

Accepted Answer

Four Towers

Question 12

This philosopher put his political beliefs in his book, The Prince.

Accepted Answer

Niccolo Machiavelli

Question 13

Which philosopher was burned for heresy against the Catholic Church

Accepted Answer

Jan Hus

Question 14

The _________ were intellectual thinkers during the Enlightenment.

Accepted Answer

philosophes

Question 15

The belief or worship of more than one god is?

Accepted Answer

Polytheism

Question 16

Which city in Italy was the the capital of the Renaissance?

Accepted Answer

Florence

Question 17

The Belief that God personally chose a monarch to become King is...

Accepted Answer

Divine Right

Question 18

Who was the first European explorer to have crossed the Mississippi River?

Accepted Answer

de Soto

Question 19

This philosopher wrote the Leviathan.

Accepted Answer

Thomas Hobbes

Question 20

Which Was NOT one of the Five Pillars of Islam?

Accepted Answer

Allah

Question 21

Which Portuguese explorer was the first to reach India by sea?

Accepted Answer

de Gama

Question 22

This was the deadly plague that spread around Europe in the 1340s.

Accepted Answer

Black Death, The Bubonic Plague

Question 23

This empire was a Turkish Empire created at the end of the thirteenth century.

Accepted Answer

Ottoman Empire

Question 24

Which word means the right way of living or the right thing to do?

Accepted Answer

Dharma

Question 25

What were salons used for during the Enlightenment?

Accepted Answer

For philosophers to exchange ideas.

Question 26

This was the consequence of Adam and Eve's rebellion in Eden.

Accepted Answer

Original Sin

Question 27

This event threatened the Catholic control of Europe in the 16th Century.

Accepted Answer

Protestant Reformation

Question 28

Who is the central figure of Islam, and thought of as the "Holy Prophet"?

Accepted Answer

Muhammad

Question 29

Which building is the center of Islam's most sacred Mosque?

Accepted Answer

Kaaba

Question 30

The Holy Trinity consisted of...

Accepted Answer

The Father, Son, and Holy Sprit

Question 31

This Renaissance Man created the marble statue titled David in 1501.

Accepted Answer

Michelangelo

History Midterm

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History Midterm

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