Africa
What desert covers much of North Africa?
Sahara
What artistic technique made Renaissance paintings more lifelike by making things in the background smaller and things in the foreground bigger?
Perspective
Who posted 95 arguments against the corruption of the Catholic Church?
Martin Luther
What disease, transmitted by fleas, spread throughout Europe, killing one third of the population?
Black Plague
The Muslim banking system was very important for international _______.
Trade
During the Middle Ages, what sorts of people could read and write?
Clergy (monks, nuns, and church leaders)
What product was traded pound for pound for gold?
Salt
What invention allowed ideas spread faster because it made books easier to produce?
Printing press
What were the documents sold as pardons (forgiveness) for sins called?
Indulgences
The Hundred Years War was fought between which two countries?
England and France
What medical institution first developed in the Muslim world?
Hospitals
How many wives did Henry VIII have?
6
Which of these was NOT a major West African trade center?
Ghana, Benin, Madagascar, or Mali
Madagascar
Why did the Renaissance begin in Italy?
Trade increased the wealth of merchants who then had money to support artists.
Who broke away from the Roman Catholic Church and started the Church of England because the Pope would not grant him an annulment (divorce)?
King Henry VIII
Roman Catholic popes called for knights to carry out a series of crusades to capture what city?
Jerusalem
What type of math involving letters that substitute for numbers was developed by Muslim scholars? (Hint: It comes from the Arabic word al jabr.)
Algebra
What are the sacred Catholic rituals like Baptism, Communion, Marriage, and Last Rites known as?
Sacraments
What is the major religion that is practiced in North Africa?
Islam
Whose art combined human emotion with ideal beauty in sculptures such as David, Moses, and his Pieta?
Michelangelo
The idea that education should be based on Greek and Roman cultures, not religion is called what: Protestantism, Rationalism, or Humanism?
Humanism
True or false: The lack of sewer systems in medieval villages prevented diseases from spreading quickly.
False. Lack of sewer systems was a major cause of widespread disease.
True or false: Muslim Crusaders conquered Jerusalem during the Crusades.
False. Muslims controlled Jerusalem, and Christian Crusaders tried to recapture the city.
True or false: The English Reformation was more about the power of the King rather than religious beliefs.
True
Name one of the major rivers in West Africa. (Hint: Not the Nile River. The Nile is in East Africa.)
Congo or Niger
Whose anatomy book was the first to describe body parts in detail?
Andreas Vesalius
What was the punishment for disobeying the Catholic Church?
Similar to labor unions today, craftsmen and merchants developed associations that were very important in medieval towns. What were these groups known as?
Guilds
In the 7th century, a major split occurred within Islam. One group through all Muslim rulers should be descendants of Muhammad, while the other group thought Muslim rulers only need to follow Muhammad's teachings. What are these two groups called?
Shi'a (or Shiites) and Sunni
Why was Sir Thomas More made a saint?
He stuck to his moral beliefs was executed for opposing Henry VIII separating from the Catholic Church in order to divorce his wife Katherine of Aragon.