How Well Do You Know World History?! Pt.2

Infidels are people who did not believe in God or the Church (The Muslims)

_ was the first Greek City-State

The first to leave Africa

The Shang dynasty was the 1st dynasty of China.

What is most unusual about the pharaoh Hatshepsut?

Which of these names is an important invention of the Middle Ages?

Which of the following explains how Petrarch's actions spread Renaissance ideas in the fourteenth century?

Inquisition is a court created by the Church to find and try heretics

Created a teaching method uses the question& answer format

To protect the government from politicians with harmful intentions, the Athenians devised the policy of

It was called the First Punic War, after the Latin word for Phoenician: punicus.

Children’s role within the family was to be subservient to the authority of their fathers.

Which of the following may have contributed to the decline and fall of the Roman Empire?

The system that allows people to invest in trade and goods for profit is

Patrician is a social class made up of minor landholders, craftspeople, merchants, and small farmers

a chain of islands is called an Archipelago

Marius changed Rome’s military recruitment system by

The Twelve Tables were

From which group did the Romans borrow their style of dress?

Who was the first Germanic leader to convert to Christianity?

The monarchies of France and Spain were attracted by Italy's

The Crusades helped to pave the way for

Wergild is “Man for Man”

determines an object's age by measuring light given off by electrons.

The last major Crusade ended when its leader, King Louis IX,

In Roman times, who attempted to redistribute land to the poor with disastrous results?

How did Judaism influence the religions of Christianity and Islam?

What role did serfs have in the feudal system?

Chivalry was a code of ethics that knights were supposed to uphold

knights were expected to treat captives as honored guests instead of

the study of past societies through an analysis of the items people left behind them

Rome and Carthage were confused on who ruled Silcily and this begun the Punic wars

Cyrus the Great showed such wisdom and compassion when he conquered Babylon that

After the Second Triumvirate, with whom did Antony war for control of Rome?

The city-state of Sparta was characterized by

Political power fascinated the people of the Italian Renaissance.

The riches of Italy attracted the French king, Charles VIII. He led an army of 30,000 men into Italy in 1494.

What was the basis for imperial law in the Eastern Roman Empire?

The most important gift a lord could give to a vassal was

What did Charlemagne do that merged Roman, Christian, and German elements in his kingdom?

Which attitude is most typical of Italy during the Renaissance?

Hieroglyphics is everyday writing

Where do scientists believe that Homo sapiens sapiens fi rst appeared between 150,000 and 200,000 years ago?

Following the Hundred Years' War, many of the states weakened by the war recovered, called these reestablished govts

the unwritten rules that determined the relationship between a lord and his vassal

Which of the following statements best describes how Clovis laid the groundwork for the Carolingian Empire?

The empire that Sargon established was continued by his grandson ___ .

How does an interdict work?

an intellectual movement of the Renaissance based on the study of the humanities

The two orders of Roman society were known as the

Which feature played a significant role in the development of early civilizations in Mesopotamia, Egypt, & India?

Mesopotamia means “Between two creeks”

Hammurabi is remembered for

Why did Diocletian divide the Roman Empire into four prefectures?

Greeks had a great desire to learn the will of the gods, __was used to reveal the future through a priest or priestess.

The Bubonic plague was spread by

Feudalism arose in response to

King Philip of France challenged the pope's supremacy because

What system of govt. did Pericles create that expanded the participation of Athenian citizens directly in their govt?

Augustus changed the way the provinces were ruled by

How were Italy and Germany unlike England and France during the Middle Ages?

A regular church members are called a Clergy

The first empire in world history was

Tetrarchy means rule by four

In a medieval city, which class generally were the only ones to hold public office?

Why was 1100 B.C - 750 B.C. considered the Dark Age for Greece?

In 53 B.C., the First Triumvirate ended with the death of

What is the name for a grant of land given to a vassal?

Why did the Greeks come into conflict with the Persians?

Faithful Church followers felt that the harsh methods of the Inquisition were justified in order to save the souls of

The Great Schism began in 1378, when

How was the human-focused worldview of the Italian Renaissance expressed in its art?

During the Fourth Crusade, the armies got distracted from their spiritual goals and began

Courses of study including history, philosophy, rhetoric, grammar, poetry, mathematics, and music were known as

Who were the first hominids to learn to make fires deliberately?

What was the primary, religious reason that Christians refused to worship state gods and emperors?

The__rule was written by Monk & was crucial to the growth of monasticism in the western world.

Spain’s two strongest kingdoms, Castile and Aragon, were united when

In the Middle Ages, society had been divided into 3 social classes: the clergy, the nobility, & peasants/townspeople.

painting done on fresh, wet plaster with water-based paints

The revolutionary change in the Neolithic Revolution was the shift from

Mercenary is a soldier who fights primarily for pay

What was fundamental to the development of classical civilization in Greece?

Plebs is a social class of wealthy, powerful landowners, they formed the ruling class in the Roman Republic

Which famous family ruled Florence?

Which of the following was part of the Neothiltic revolution?

Imperator is Latin origin of the word emperor

A Dictator is an absolute ruler

Fief is a peasant legally bound to the land who had to provide labor services

How did the Phoenician culture influence classical Greek civilization?

Why did the ancient Egyptians build their cities along the Nile River?

Machiavelli believed that moral principles

Wrote about Ethics and Politics, telling us about three forms of government.

When a living thing dies it slowly loses C-14. By measuring the amount left in an object, a scientist can figure its age

Which of the following was written in the language of everyday speech in a particular region?

The Patriaich is the head of the Eastern Orthodox Church

Republic is a form of government in which the leader is not a king and certain citizens have the right to vote

Five out of the six most important characteristics of civilizations are

How did monks and nuns help to spread Christianity throughout Europe?

artistic techniques used to give the effect of three-dimensional depth to two-dimensional surfaces