Seven Crusades for Seven Brothers
This tradition Church fathers feared would distract people from a pursuit of heavenly things.
What is pilgrimage?
Pg. 116
This is a gambling tile.
According to Boorstin, this institution prevented scientific growth for about 1000 years.
What is Christianity?
Pg. 100
This was one of the most popular shapes of earth in 'the Dark Ages'.
What was the flat earth?
This popular Christian practice some believed to be unruly in the early 1000s.
What are the crusades?
p. 119
This was the name of the well known trade route between China and much of Europe.
What was the Sil Road?
p. 125
This practice played a great role in Christianity.
What is evangelism? (missions, missionaries, and sharing the Gospel, is permitted also.
This location many Christian geographers were obsessed with finding.
What is the Garden of Eden?
Pg. 101-104
This city early Christians believed to be in the center of the world.
What is Jerusalem?
These were the three boats of Columbus.
What were the Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria?
This man is famous for traveling to China in the 1300s.
Who is Marco Polo?
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This Latin phrase was often shouted amidst the battles of the Crusades.
What was 'Deus le volt'?
p. 119
This place was believed to be located north and filled with great evils.
What is Gog and Magog?
Pg. 104
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This man was believed to be descended from the Three Wise Men.
Who was Prester John?
p. 105
This was a phrase used to describe Communist countries that Boorstin uses to describe Medieval Christianity.
What was the Iron Curtain
p. 125
According to Boorstin, this people group broke Christianity free in the 1300s.
Who are the Tartars?
p. 126
This place was a marketplace for many different ideas from many different backgrounds in the 1000s.
What was the Kingdom of Sicily?
p. 118
Augustine asserted this geographical phenomenon to be impossible.
(Must have the specific name)
What are the Antipodes?
Pg. 107
According to Boorstin, this group of people were 'so refined at mastering the earth's irregularities'.
What are the Chinese?
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Pg. 112
This man Pope Gregory the IX had bad blood with.
Who was King Frederik the II?
p. 127
This was the way of spreading Islam through war.
What was jihad?
p. 123
The Augsburg confession condemned what practices?
(Name at least three, extra 100 points if denomination is named)
What are; pilgrimages, set fasts, worshipping of saints, and the counting of rosaries.
It is a Lutheran confession.
p. 122
Prester John believed such things would come from 'the nation cursed by God'.
(list at least three)
What are: (list at least three), griffins, Yllerion, horned men with one eye and four, cannibals, and centaurs?
Pg. 106
According to Boorstin, these people helped to prorogate the wrongful Christian geographical perspectives.
(Name at least three, extra 100 points if all are named).
Who were; Saint Brendan, Roger Bacon, Augustine, Prester John, Chrysostom, and Otto Bishop of Freising?
According to Sevile, the three men were given these three locations after the flood.
(100 points per person, 100 points per location)
Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
Shem has Asia, Ham has Africa, and Japheth has Europe.
p. 101
This is a gambling tile.
According to Boorstin, Medieval Christians made this fatal mistake concerning diplomacy.
What is allying only with Christians?
(Does not need a precise answer)
p. 127