The Christian Church
What was the creed given by the Council of Nicaea?
What is the Nicene Creed
What happened in the year 476 A.D. and why was this significant for the Church?
What is Rome fell and it left the Church as the only organized institution in wester Europe.
Why are the years 500-1000 called, "The Dark Ages"?
How did nation-states differ from feudal kingdoms?
Who was the last team to win back-to-back Super Bowls?
The Patriots
Who were the four Gospel writers and what do the Gospels tell us about?
What is Mathew, Mark, Luke, and John. What is about Jesus' life and teachings.
Who stopped the Muslims at Tours, France? What did this do for Christendom?
What is Charles Martel and this victory ensured Europe did not have to fight the Muslims on several fronts.
When was the Great Schism and what did it do?
What is 1054 and it split the Eastern Orthodox and Catholic churches.
What was the Renaissance?
It was a rebirth of the classical works of Greece and Rome.
What is the northernmost capital city in the world?
Reykjavik, Iceland
What happened on Pentecost, fifty days after Easter? Why is this important to the Church?
What is the Holy Spirit came upon the Apostles and it is the Church's birthday.
Name two accomplishments of the Emperor Justinian.
What is he created one set of laws for the Empire, he reconquered vast areas of land lost by the Byzantines, etc.
Who conquered England in 1066 and why is this significant?
What is William the Conqueror and it united England under the Normans.
What happened in 1453 and why was this important for Europe?
What is the northernmost permanently inhabited town in the world?
Longyearbyen, Svalbard
Who declared the Edict of Milan and what did this do?
What is Constantine and it made Christianity legal.
What is the difference between the Pharisees and the Sadducees?
What is the Pharisees saw themselves as defenders of the law, the Sadducees were the party of the priests and the Sanhedrin, etc.
What was the Magna Carta, who signed it, and why was he made to do it?
The Magna Carta limited the king's powers, King John was forced to sign it because he was a poor king who lost a civil war.
What happened in 1492 and why did Spain feel this was a good time to do it?
Christopher Columbus set sail for Asia and found America. Spain had recently unified and finished the reconquest of the Iberian Peninsula.
What is the southernmost capital city in the world?
Wellington, New Zealand
Why did the Roman Empire persecute Christians? Give two reasons.
What is they refused to serve in the military, they refused to worship Roman gods or the Emperor, they were threatened by how quickly the religion was spreading, etc.
What are the five pillars of Islam?
What is, belief in one God, prayer five times a day, almsgiving, the fast of Ramadan, and the pilgrimage to Mecca.
Describe the structure of Feudalism.
The peasants farmed land for lords who paid them by giving small pieces of land. Likewise, lords would swear fealty to kings or other lords in exchange for more land or greater titles.
What happened at Wittenberg, Germany in 1517? Why was this significant?
Martin Luther nailed the 95 Theses to the door of the church and this began the Protestant Reformation.
What is the Investiture Conflict?
A time when the Church and monarchs argued over who had the right to appoint bishops and who those bishops should be loyal to.