Western Civ Midterm Review

She heard voices of saints and led the French to victory in the Hundred Years' War

These provided women with more economic opportunities than they had before.

One of the oldest writing systems, it made use of clay tablets and styli.

He had six wives as he tried for a male heir.  All of his kids eventually ruled England.

He was the prototypical Renaissance Man - a great painter, engineer, inventor, scientist...

Incas used these instead of writing.

Which of these is not a power of the Pope?

This religion featured human sacrifice with hearts being cut out on the top of temples.

He was kidnapped, ransomed, converted and murdered by a Spanish conquistador.

Lay investiture is the effort of a king to do which of the following?

He nailed 95 Theses to the door of the church to complain about Catholic practices.

Who said it: "only philosophers can see the true world of forms, others are in the cave."

Who was allowed to vote in the early democracy in Athens?

He conquered the Aztecs with the help of disease, guns, and helpful tribes who hated the Aztecs

Who said it: "The ends justify the means."

Which of the following were built to reach up to the gods, but not used as temples?

The first document to limit the power of a king.

This was made worse by the decision to farm sugarcane in the Caribbean and Brazil.

He conquered the Inca with the help of disease, guns, and kidnapping the king.

Someone who controls the process of making an item from start to finish.

She earned her nickname while executing thousands of people who disagreed with her religion

What was the purpose of the code of chivalry?

Very powerful over short distances, but slow to reload.

This featured perspective and proportion that allowed three dimensions in painting.

The economic system based on a favorable trade balance - more exports than imports.

A slave of the Spartans who was forced to do farm work.

He was sold into slavery as a teen, and wrote a book about the Middle Passage after he escaped

She married two kings, bore two kings, and was a patron of the arts, especially troubadours.

This weekend the Church because there were three popes at the same time.

Who said it: "A man cannot step into the same river twice..."

She was the first woman to make her living as an author, she also supported education for girls

He believed in predestination and denied that we have free will.

Who said it: "The unexamined life is not worth living."

Very powerful over long distances, deadly at closer range and led to the end of the knights

This killed one-third of Europeans, and weakened the Church, but ended serfdom for most.

This was the Catholic response to the Reformation, it was an attempt to keep Catholics Catholic

She was a famous and successful painter during the Renaissance.

Who said it: "G-d is the prime mover."

He painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, but was an angry artist.

Who said it: "Love your enemies..."

Aztec legends told this winged serpent god would return as a bearded white man.

He wrote a book about Utopia, but did not support Henry VIII's divorce, so he was beheaded.

Floating gardens of Tenochtitlan that provided food for the Aztec empire.