Medieval Japan
This social and political structure shaped everyday life in Medieval Japan
What is the Feudal system?
This is another name for the Medieval period in Europe
What is the "Dark Ages?"
The Protestant Reformation was a ______ movement
What is religious?
True or false (you do not need to respond in a question format): The Europeans were the first to discover the Americas
False. There were people living here for thousands of years before the Europeans arrived.
The Scientific Revolution was a period of increased scientific study and advancements, which often contradicted the teachings of this institution
What is the Catholic Church?
In the Japanese Feudal system, most of the population belonged to this group?
Who are the peasants?
Unlike the Japanese Feudal system, this person held most of the power in the Medieval European Feudal system.
Who is the king (monarch)?
The Protestant Reformation started with this person writing a list of 95 Theses and allegedly nailing them to the church door in Wittenberg, Germany
Who is Martin Luther?
The first explorers in the Age of Exploration were looking for a shortcut from Europe to this continent ____.
*Hint: They did not know about the existence of the Americas
This scientist was imprisoned by the Catholic Church for suggesting that the earth orbits the sun, rather than the sun orbiting the earth
Who was Galileo?
In the Japanese Feudal system, this person's role was mostly ceremonial, with no actual power
Who is the emperor?
The head of the Catholic Church (the pope) held this power over all Catholics, including kings
What is papal supremacy?
This English king started the English Reformation when he declared himself the head of the Church of England
Who is Henry VIII?
This ancient Mesoamerican civilization disappeared before the arrival of the Spanish and historians are still debating what happened
What is the Mayan civilization?
This Age of Enlightenment thinker argued that women had less knowledge than men because they had less access to education, not because they were less intelligent
Who is Mary Wollstonecraft?
In the Japanese Feudal system, who held the real power?
Who are the shoguns?
This disease spread quickly throughout Europe in the mid-14th century, eventually killing 1/3 of the population
What is the Bubonic Plague (Black Death)?
The Renaissance was a period of "rebirth" because it brought a renewed focus on classical ideas from these ancient civilizations
Who were the Greeks and Romans?
This Mesoamerican civilization covered much of South America before being conquered by Francisco Pizarro
Who were the Inca?
The __________ was developed by Francis Bacon as a standard set of steps to search for knowledge or test theories
What is the Scientific Method?
Most Japanese people in the Medieval period practiced one of these two religions:
What are Shintoism and Buddhism?
This document limited the power of the monarch and formed the foundation of both English Common Law and the United States Constitution
What is the Magna Carta?
This Renaissance-era invention by Johannes Gutenberg allowed new ideas, especially those related to the Protestant Reformation, to spread quickly
What is the printing press?
This Indigenous woman acted as an interpreter for the conquistador Hernán Cortés when he conquered the Aztecs
Who is La Malinche/Malintzin?
John Locke's understanding of natural law and the rights of citizens led to this event, which turned England into a constitutional monarchy
What is the Glorious Revolution?