Roman Philosophers
What viewpoint accepted the individual as a reactive, not an active, organism?
Stoicism
Who was Jesus' immediate predecessor?
John the Baptist
Who wrote "City of God?"
Augustine
Petrarch referred to this time period as what?
The Dark Ages
Who led the eastern empire and lived from 483-565?
Emperor Justinian
Who argued that matter exists only as a formless potential to acquire form?
Plotinus
What was the name for the 12 disciples of Jesus?
How did St. Paul radically transform early Christianity?
He preached in a form that could be understood by the majority of people in the Roman Empire
Who was the founder of the monastic movement in the West?
St. Benedict
Who published the "Canon of Medicine?"
Abu ibn Sina, AKA Avicenna
The Stoics derived their views from the teachings of who?
Zeno
Which Roman general was responsible for the destruction of Jerusalem?
Titus
When did Eastern and Western Christianity split?
1054
Who was elected bishop of Rome in 590?
Pope Gregory the Great
True or False: Islamic intellectuals destroyed the writings of the ancients of Greece
False
This viewpoint held the sole principle that the goal of life is happiness.
Epicureanism
How did God favor human beings?
He offered them the chance for immortality and salvation
Who defined the human person as an "individual substance of a rational nature?"
Boethius
Who donated lands of central Italy to Pope Gregory the Great?
Pepin
When was the Byzantine Empire obliterated?
1453
Which viewpoint reduced the concept of a soul to an emphasis on sensation?
Epicureanism
In what year was Jerusalem destroyed?
70 AD
Who reconciled the Hebrew origins of Christianity with pagan Greek philosophy?
Clement and Origen
When did St. Benedict open the greatest monastery of the early medieval period?
529
Physicians of which religion developed anesthesia and surgical procedures?
Islam