Locations
The country Rome is located in
What is Italy?
The founder of the Islamic religion
Who is Muhammed?
Means "rebirth"; the time of renewed interest in the arts that began to bring Europe out of the Middle Ages
What is the Renaissance?
When members of the Catholic Church fought back against Biblically inaccurate teaching, such as the selling of indulgences, in 1517 AD
What is the Protestant Reformation?
The number of chapters we have worked through so far
What is 15?
This city was destroyed during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79
What is Pompeii?
The name of the German empire because of its alliance with the Roman Catholic Church and its symbolic association with the empire of ancient Rome
What is the Holy Roman Empire?
Different levels of hierarchy that one was born into during the Middle Ages (Pope, King, Church Officials, Lords, Knights, Peasants)
What is the Feudal System?
The different journeys the took place between 1096-1204 to the Holy Land in order to reconquer it
What are the Crusades?
The number of weeks we have met so far
What is 15?
The body of water that the Greek and Roman civilizations surrounded
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
The leader of one of the great Chinese philosophies/religions that focused on the different relationships one has in life and followed a system of ethics
Who is Confucius?
The "three g's" that motivated European explorers between 1450 and 1650
What is God, gold, and glory?
The period from the late fourteenth to early fifteenth century during which the Roman Catholic Church had two to three men claiming to be the pope
What is the Great Schism?
What we often do when looking at two related events from history
What is compare and contrast?
Crescent-shaped fertile region encompassing Mesopotamia and the land of Canaan, often referred to as the "Cradle of Civilization"
What is the Fertile Crescent?
The Eastern Roman Empire after the Western Roman Empire fell
What is the Byzantine Empire?
The act of rejecting someone from the church and not allowing them to participate in any of the sacraments, essentially condemning the person to Hell
What is excommunication?
A peaceful revolution in which Parliament dethroned James II and installed William and Mary as corulers
What is the Glorious Revolution?
The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Who are Michelangelo, Leonardo, Donatello, and Raphael?
The country that Kublai Khan conquered between 1279-1368 and established the Mongol (or Yuan) Dynasty in
What is China?
Who is Hernando Cortés?
A Roman term for all those outside the empire who did not share in the Greek or Roman cultures
Who are barbarians?
An edict made by Constantine in 313 that made Christianity legal in the Roman Empire
What is the Edict of Milan?
The total number of homework points you could earn in our first semester (includes 200 points from your Midterm Project)
What is 1205?