The term for the type of democracy that Rome had (other than indirect democracy).
What is a Republic?
100
The most powerful institution of the middle ages.
What is the Roman Catholic Church?
100
The term for the law that was common to the whole Kingdom in Great Britain.
What is Common Law?
200
A government ran by a small group of noble, landowning families.
What is an Aristocracy?
200
The mnemonic device used to remember the early Greek leaders who brought democracy to Greece.
What is SCP?
200
The three major monotheistic religions that influenced democracy.
What is Christianity, Judaism, and Islam?
200
The name for the time period that was marked by renewed interest in classical culture.
What is the Renaissance?
200
A document that is a major source of traditional English respect for individual rights and liberties (a document King John was forced to sign by the nobles in 1215).
What is the Magna Carta?
300
A government ruled by a few powerful people.
What is an oligarchy?
300
The names for the three leaders who brought democracy to Greece.
Who are Solon, Cleisthenes, and Pericles?
300
The written code of laws that was handed down to Moses, according to the bible.
What are the Ten Commandments?
300
The religious reform movement that began in the 16th century.
What is the Reformation?
300
The revolution in England where William and Mary of Orange took control of the kingdom, in which no blood was shed.
What is the Glorious Revolution?
400
The specific type of government where people vote for representatives to run the government.
What is indirect democracy?
400
The mnenonic device and names for the three great philosophers of Greece.
What is SPA: Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle?
400
The name of an apostle of Jesus that preached about the equality of all human beings.
Who is Apostle Paul?
400
The invention that helped bring about the Renaissance.
What is the printing press?
400
The term for a type of government that has a Monarch along with a democratic aspect.
What is a Constitutional Monarchy?
500
An economic system in which all means of production - land, mines, factories, railroads, and businesses - are owned by the people, private property does not exist, and all goods and services are shared equally.
What is Communism?
500
Rome's written code of laws that established all free citizens having equal rights, and fair protection under the law.
What are the Twelve Tables?
500
One of the great aspects that Islam added to democracy.
What is tolerance, equal treatment of laws by citizens and rulers, or the brotherhood of all human beings in a diverse world?
500
The term for those who wanted to overhaul the Catholic Church during the reformation.
What are Protestants?
500
The leader of the anti-royalist forces during the English Civil War.