Middle Ages (W-Europe)
Renaissance/Reformation
Enlightenment
Scientific Revolution
Age of Exploration
100
The Danube and the Po in Europe are ________.
What are rivers? (Mountain ranges include the Pyrenees, the Alps, and the Carpathians; peninsulas include Spain and Italy; islands include England and Ireland.
100
The leaders of the city-states of Italy.
What are merchants? ( The leaders of the Italian city-states in the Renaissance were urban traders and bankers.
100
Summary of the ideas of Copernicus.
What is the earth orbits the sun?
100
Scientist during the Scientific Revolution whose initials are G.G. and his discovery.
What is Galileo Galilei? What is other planets have moons?
100
Europeans wanted to find a water route to Asia because _______.
What is the Mongols lost power and overland trade was disrupted?
200
In what way does the code of chivalry still affect people?
What is many of our ideas about social manners are based on chivalry. (Chivalry is the knightly code of conduct.)
200
The technique of perspective allowed Renaissance artists to _______.
What is add dimension and depth to their art? (Perspective could make artwork look three-dimensional. The technique, therefore, made Renaissance art appear more natural realistic.)
200
Descartes summarized his philosophy with the phrase_____.
What is "I think, therefore I am?"
200
Scientist during the Scientific Revolution whose initials are I.N. and his discovery.
What is Isaac Newton? What is gravity;laws of motion;calculus?
200
Advancement made by the Greeks that the Europeans adopt for overseas exploration?
What is Ptolemy's map?
300
King Henry II of England used ________ to increase his power?
What is courts of law? ( Henry II increased his power using courts of law. although HenryII had serfs, his peasant workers were not a source of increased power. Likewise, he did not rely on the pope, who was the head of the Catholic Church, or the Magna Carta, a document that limited the powers of the English king, to become more powerful.
300
Why did people such as Erasmus criticize the Catholic Church?
What is they thought Church leaders were too concerned with money? (Reformers were angry that the Catholic Church sold indulgences to make money. The money was used to build a cathedral, not for charity or education. The Catholic Church spent money for artwork, but nothing indicates that people objected to art.)
300
The theory of Montesquieu was called separation of powers because it separated government .......
What is into three branches, all with equal power? (Montesquieu wrote that the best form of government involved a split into three, not two, separate branches -executive, legislative, and judicial. None of the three branches was given ore power than the other two.)
300
Scientist during the Scientific Revolution whose initials are J.K. and his discovery.
What is Johannes Kepler? What is planets have elliptical orbits?
300
Who first tried to help the Europeans to find a water route to Asia?
What is Henry the Navigator?
400
"Flying buttresses" are related to what?
What is Gothic architecture? (The flying buttress was a feature of Gothic architecture. Scholasticism was a philosophical worldview; the vernacular is everyday language; Romanesque architecture combined the features of Roman and Byzantine buildings.)
400
Martin Luther believed that the Bible was ______.
What is the best source of religious truth? (Martin Luther argued that the people should have access to the Bible and learn about its beliefs for themselves. He believed that people should be able to get their information from the Bible themselves without going through ministers.)
400
During his reign, Frederick II ______.
What is allowed freedom of speech and religion?
400
Scientist during the Scientific Revolution whose initials are N.C. and his discovery?
What is Nicolaus Copernicus? What is earth orbits the sun;earth rotates on its axis?
400
Which section of the map did the Mayans live?
What is the Yucatan Peninsula?
500
Why did Pope Urban II call for the First Crusade?
Urban II wanted to reunite the two Christian Churches.
500
The Catholic Church responded to the spread of Protestantism by_______.
What is setting up seminaries? (The Catholic Church established seminaries to improve the education of priests. Better-educated priests who could read, write, and preach well would help the Catholics win back people who had joined the Protestant church. It ended the practice of selling indulgences and made stricter rules for priests. The Jesuit order was another type of Catholic reform.)
500
Which of the following discoveries did Antoine Lavoisier make?
What is matter needs oxygen to burn. (Lavoisier showed that matter needs oxygen to burn.)
500
Scientist who believed that conducting experiments was the correct way to achieve new scientific knowledge.
What is Galileo Galilei?
500
What helped European the most in conquering Native Americans?
What is diseases?