World History Midterm Exam

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

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

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

What is not a way rulers keep power?

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

Mary Wollstonecraft promoted female rights

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

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

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

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

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

Intellectual movement during the Italian Renaissance

What were the Crusades?

Absolutism is a form of government?

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

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

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

What was one reason for the Great Schism in Christianity?

Absolutism had only centralized governments.

Mary Wollstonecraft promoted Male Rights over Female Rights

What was the main goal of the Counter Reformation?

What are the basic tenets of the Islamic faith?

Dominant figure in Scholasticism and author of Summa Theologica

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

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

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

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

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

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

What is Devine Right?

Renown Muslim mathmetician and father of al-jabr or Algebra

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

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

Absolutism is a form of economics?

How did the Black Plague affect medieval populations?

What role did the Church play in Medieval Europe?

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

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

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

What were European Crisis in 1560s-1650s?

Denis Diderot, Co-wrote the encyclopedia

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

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

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

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

Logical thinking was called rationalism

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

What geographic advantage did Constantinople have?

Absolute Monarchs had checks and Balances ?

What are the Byzantine contributions to art and learning?

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

What is Machiavelli’s general view of people?

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

Who Helped create scientific method?

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

Limited Monarchs has checks and balances?

What is Absolutism?