World Religions
Renaissance
Protestant Reformation and Enlightenment
Revolutions
Potpourri
100

This is the believe in MORE THAN ONE GOD.

What is POLYTHEISTIC?

100

This is what Rennaisance means in French.

What is REBIRTH?

100

This is the main person who started the Protestant Reformation.

Who is MARTIN LUTHER?
100

In the Mexican Revolution, this is the dictator who ruled over Mexico for 30 years before the revolutionaries removed his from office.

Who is Porfirio Díaz?

100

This is the Heisman Trophy winner for the 2024 NCAA football season

Who is TRAVIS HUNTER?

200

This is the name of the main holy structure for the Islam religion.

What is a mosque?

200

Renaissance writers and philosphers were most inspired by ideas and art from this historical period?

What is GREECE and ROME?

200

This is the essay that was nailed to the door of a Catholic church in Germany in 1517.

What is the 95 Theses?

200

This is the main leader of the Haitian Revolution, who also wrote the original Haitian Constitution and designation himself as "Governor General" in 1801.

Who is Toussaint Louverture?

200

This song spent the most weeks at #1 on the Billboard "Hot 100."

What is "A Bar Song (Tipsy)" by Shaboozey?

300

This is an example of a MONOTHEISTIC religion.

What is Judaism, Christianity, or Islam?

300

This was an intellectual movement during the Renaissance that focused on the nature of humanity.

What is the HUMANISM?

300

This philosopher argued governments existed for the sake of protecting people's "life, liberty, and property." 

Who is JOHN LOCKE?

300

The French "Law of Suspects" was created in 1862 in order to bring suspected anti-revolutionaries to justice.  This sparked what movement during the French Revolution?

What is the "REIGN OF TERROR?"
300

This MIDDLE EASTERN COUNTRY recently went through a revolution that replaced Bashar al Asaad, a dictator who had rules for 24 years.

What is SYRIA?

400

This is the primary holy city for Judaism, Christianity, AND Islam.

What is JERSUSALEM?

400

Leonardo da Vinci studied human anatomy during the Renaissance by:

What is DISSECTING HUMAN CORPSES?

400

Montisquie argued that governments should have separate executive, judicial, and legislative branches.  This is called:

What is SEPARATION OF POWERS?
400

DAILY DOUBLE: Draw a social hierarchy triangle which has the "Three Estates" during pre-revolutionary France. Alsi annotate which estate(s) paid the taxes.

What are the CLERGY (First estate), NOBILITY (Second Estate), and EVERYONE ELSE (Third Estate)

400

This body of water provides water for over 40 million people in seven states and part of Mexico.

What is THE COLORADO RIVER?

500

DAILY DOUBLE:

Your group has one minute to write down as many religious holidays (attach each holiday to a religion).  The winning group will get 1000 points!

Christmas and Easter (Christianity)

Ramadan (Islam)

Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, and The Sabbath (Judaism)

Holi, Mahashivratri, and Diwali ...Many - associated with natural moon cycles usually (Hinduism)

Magha Puja Day and Sangha Day, Buddhist New Year, Wesak, Dharma Day, Parinirvana Day, and Kathina. (Buddhism)

The main holidays are centered around the ten Guru’s birthdays (Gurpurab)

There are ten Guru’s.  The main ones celebrated are the first (Guru Nanek) and the last (Guru Gobind Singh).  (Sikhism)

500

This theory of the sun as the center of the solar system got Galileo labeled as a HERETIC by the Catholic church.

What is HELIOCENTRIC?

500

The Law of Suspects was created during this historical development (1793).

What is the REIGN OF TERROR (during the French Revolution)?

500

This person rapidly rose through the ranks of the military during the French Revolution (1789-1799) after seizing political power in France in a 1799 coup d'état, and crowned himself emperor in 1804.

Who is NAPOLEAN?
500

These are the only two AI Platforms that have been cleared for use by Durango 9-R students.

What is SCHOOLAL and GEMINI?

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