🕌 Unit 1: World Religions
This religion believes in one God called Allah.
👉 What is Islam?
In feudal Japan, this person was the symbolic leader with little real power.
👉 Who was the emperor?
This word means “rebirth” and refers to renewed interest in classical culture.
👉 What is the Renaissance?
This navigation tool helped sailors determine latitude.
👉 What is an astrolabe?
This estate made up 97% of France’s population.
👉 What is the Third Estate?
These five practices guide how Muslims should live their daily lives.
👉 What are the Five Pillars of Faith?
This military leader held the real power in feudal Japan.
👉 Who was the shogun?
This Renaissance idea focused on human achievement and potential.
👉 What is humanism?
This ship design made long ocean voyages possible.
👉 What is the caravel?
This group paid nearly all the taxes despite having the least power.
👉 Who was the Third Estate?
Unlike Christianity at the time, Islam eliminated this group between believers and God.
👉 What is the priesthood?
This 1635 law isolated Japan from foreign influence.
👉 What was the Edict of 1635?
This Renaissance art feature shows depth and three-dimensional space.
👉 What is perspective?
Europeans conquered natives easily because of steel weapons, horses, and this deadly factor.
👉 What are epidemic diseases?
What was called to try and fix the financial issues in France that led to the French Revolution
The Estates-General
This belief helped Islam spread quickly because people of any background could join.
👉 What is Islam’s universal message?
The Ottomans gained a major military advantage by using this technology.
👉 What is gunpowder/artillery?
A key focus of Classical art was showcasing the importance of gods, goddesses, leaders, and this ideal, often seen in sculpture.
What is the Human Body/Physical Perfection?
Columbus sailed for Spain to gain wealth, spread Christianity, and achieve this goal.
👉 What is claiming land for Spain?
This type of government has a constitution and elected representatives.
👉 What is a democracy or constitutional government?
This religion focuses on dharma and karma and is polytheistic.
👉 What is Hinduism?
At its height, the Ottoman Empire controlled land on these three continents.
👉 What are Europe, Africa, and Asia?
Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, and Raphael were masters of this era, known for religious themes, mythology, and realistic human anatomy.
Who are High Renaissance masters
This exchange transferred plants, animals, diseases, and people between hemispheres.
👉 What is the Columbian Exchange?
A major result of Latin American revolutions was the independence of these nations.
👉 What are Latin American countries?
This river is sacred to Hindus.
👉 What is the Ganges River?
The Mughal Empire faced difficulty invading what modern-day country
India
This institution opposed heliocentrism because it supported the Earth-centered model.
👉 What is the Catholic Church?
This route carried enslaved Africans from Africa to the Americas.
👉 What is the Middle Passage?
This Latin American leader fought for independence and supported democracy.
👉 Who was Simón Bolívar?
This belief system focuses on respect, virtue, and filial piety rather than worship of gods.
👉 What is Confucianism?
This Ming Dynasty admiral led voyages across the Indian Ocean.
👉 Who was Zheng He?
This Scientific Revolution theory placed the sun at the center of the universe.
👉 What is the heliocentric model?
This Spanish friar spoke out against the mistreatment of Native Americans.
👉 Who was Bartolomé de las Casas?
Who believed in a seperation of Church and State
Voltaire
This Japanese religion worships spirits called kami and builds shrines near natural features.
👉 What is Shinto?
This Chinese dynasty overthrew the Mongol Yuan Dynasty and created a nationwide school system.
👉 What was the Ming Dynasty?
This invention helped spread Reformation ideas quickly across Europe.
👉 What is the printing press?
The Conquistadors who conquered the Aztec and Incan empires
Cortez and Pizzaro
Who said that there should be a check and balance system, and described the different types of governments
Montesqiue
Who believed that the Government should be like a leviathan.
Hobbes
Who described the social contract and developed the concept of the Tabula Rasa
Locke