WCG Exam 2
When, according to the Chinese tradition, the invention of paper occured?
105 A.D.
When the city of Constantinople fell under the control of the Ottomans?
1453
When was the Edict of Milan issued?
313
How many crusades occurred starting 1095 and ending in 1254?
7
Who based his theology on, "I know in order to believe.."?
Abelard
Who won the Battle of Issus
Alexander
Who based his theology on, "faith precedes intellect and reason"?
Anselm
Who is the author of Summa Theologica?
Aquinas
Who with his teaching suggested, "There was time when Jesus was not"?
Arius
Who authored the classic works titled "The Confessions" and "The City of God"?
Augustine
When the Spaniards entered the city we know today as Mexico City, who were the people who were living in it?
Aztecs
Which ethnic group controlled the trade across the Saharan desert?
Berbers
Which of the following titles contain cautionary tales of scheming, jealous and manipulative women?
Biographies of Exemplary Women
Who argued that the Jew were cursed by God to wander?
Charlemagne
Who forced the Saxons into baptism?
Charlemagne
Who defeated the Muslim forces in the Battle of Tours?
Charles Martel
Who won the Battle of Tours in 732?
Charles Martel
Why is charter important in the rise of the burgh (town folk, urban class)?
Charter guaranteed the town people the right to govern themelves
Who is considered the "father of Greek democracy"?
Cleisthenes
Who united the Frankish tribes, and accepted Christianity because he believed the God of his wife helped him defeat his enemies?
Clovis
Who was baptized into Christianity because Christian God helped him defeat the Alemanni troops?
Clovis
Which emperor-persecutor caused the greatest divisions within the ranks of the Christians?
Decius
Who divided the empire into two halves and moved the capital from Rome to Asia Minor?
Diocletian
Who argued that the legalization of Christianity in 313 eroded the traditional Roman value system?
Edward Gibbon
Who said "I thought, 'age should speak; advanced years should teach wisdom'"?
Elihu
Who held that "senses are the only sources of ideas and the criteria of truth"?
Epicurus
Identify the ethnic group that migrated into the Italian peninsula from the north in the 8th/9th century B.C. and brought with them a writing system, high culture pf art and architectural skills?
Etruscans
When Muhammad died, he left behind him...
Fatima
Who brought the Christian Gospel to Ethiopia?
Frumentius
Who is credited with bringing Christianity to the Ethiopian region?
Frumentius
Who spoke to Muhammad in a vision?
Gabriel
How did God respond to Job and his friends?
God questioned their knowledge and in return, Job humbled himself and repented to God.
Identify the Germanic tribe which migrated and occupied Gaul?
Goths
Identify the Abbasid caliph under whose leadership (rule) the city of Baghdad emerged as a flourishing commercial, artistic and scientific center of the Islamic civilization.
Harun al-Rashid
How did the ancient Greeks call their land?
Hellas
Who required from his students to take an oath of ethics if they wished to practice medicine?
Hippocrates
Who of the following is considered "the greatest traveler" of all time?
Ibn Batuta
Why is the Treaty of Verdun in 843 significant?
It marked the beginning of future France and modern Germany
What is the core issue of the Apostolic Writings
Jesus is the "risen Lord" (has resurrected)
Who suffered under pogroms?
Jews
After Job heard the news about the loss of his property and his children, what was Job's first reaction to the tragedies that had befallen upon him?
Job did not charge God with wrongdoing
Who in his sermons liked to repeat, "The more one is purged from Jewishness and Judaism, the more Christian one is"?
John Chrysostom
Who defeated Emperor Maxentius at the Milvinian Bridge in 321?
Justinian
According to legends, who arrived to the continent of North America first?
Leif Eriksson
Indicate the ethnic group of Mali who were known for their agriculture skills
Mandinke
Who allied himself with Cleopatra to his own ruin?
Marc Antony
Who was astounded at both the boat traffic on the Yangzi River, and the splendor of the city of Hangzhou, and wrote about it in his travelogues?
Marco Polo
Who in Roman history is considered as the "last good emperor"?
Marcus Aurelius
Which of the following MesoAmerican peoples invented a calendar with of 18 20-day months and one 5-day month?
Mayas
What man was sold several times, eventually bought back his freedom and converted to Christianity, and whose autobiography had a major impact in the passing of the British Slave Trade Act of 1807?
Olaudah Equiano
Who preached the Christian Gospel to the people of Ireland?
Patrick
Whom the Pope Stephen II declared to be "the Protector of the Church"?
Pepin the Short
Who willingly sponsored the expedition across the Atlantic Ocean proposed by Columbus?
Queen Isabella
What is the meaning of Satan's statement, "Have you not put a hedge around him and his household and everything he has?..."
Satan is taunting God
Who wrote a comprehensive history of China, titled "Records of the Great Historian"?
Sima Qian
Who said "One thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing"?
Socrates
Who said: "Examine thyself! The unexamined life is not worth living"?
Socrates
Which of the following isms enjoyed the greatest following among the Romans?
Stoicism
Who held that "the good man is the wise man who lives rationally"
Stoics
Who constructed an eighty-feet-tall mechanical clock?
Su Song
When was the civil service examination system established? It was established during the...
Sui Dynasty
Who is considered the greatest ever Sultan?
Suleiman the Magnificent
Indicate the Roman historian who in his account of Nero's reign mentions that certain Christus was crucified by the order of the Procurator Pontius Pilate.
Tacitus
Who in his work Germania criticized the Romans for their moral degeneracy and praised the Barbarian simple life?
Tacitus
What happened at the Battle of Adrianople?
The Goths routed the Romans
Which of the following groups holds that the disciples of Jesus in their grief concocted the story of the resurrection?
The Jesus Seminar
Which of the following is not necessarily a reason behind the persecution of Christians?
The spread of Christian religion was working against a segment of local economy
Which of the following would be a direct consequence of the Crusades?
The western Europeans were forced to seek new routes to India and China
What was the first thing Job's friend have done as they approached Job's place?
They began to weep aloud and tore their robes
Discuss the attitude of Job's friends toward his suffering
They kept talking as if they had the knowledge to do so
Who in the 19th century, particularly stressed that the mold of the naive faiths was broken by the Renaissance humanists?
Thomas More
Identify the city which under Mansa Musa developed from a campsite to a major center of trade and commerce, learning and scholarship
Timbuktu
Identify the major cultural and commercial urban center in western Sahara
Timbuktu
Who in 1095 made a call to the Frankish nobility to undertake a crusade against the Muslims and to free the Holy Land?
Urban II
Identify the book title written by Thomas More and published in 1516
Utopia
Where did Job live?
Uz
Who wrote Hellenica, a history of Sparta?
Xenophon
Who said "Have you considered my servant Job?.. He is blameless and upright, a man who fears Elohim and shuns evil."
Yahweh
Who was Hannibal?
a Carthaginian
What was polis?
a city-state
What is the "Medieval Theory"?
a claim that the secular government and the ecclesiastic establishment were the two arms of one body, directed by one head who is the Christ.
Islam is..
a closed system
Hadith is...
a collection of the sayings of Muhammad
What is "khipu"?
a device made up of knotted strings used to calculate taxes or record information
What is wergild?
a sum of money given the victim or relatives as compensation for injury
What was the Hanseatic League?
an organization of European cities
Religion in African ancient cultures were -- and --
animistic and polytheist
How many characters were there in the Mayan hieroglyphic writing system?
aprox. 950-1000
The disintegration of central authority of the Roman imperial system...
called for a greater reliance on the local self-government and protection
What made the trans-Saharan trade possible?
camel
"Jesus Christ -- documented as historical fact"
cannot be
At the Jerusalem meeting of the Church Leaders it was decided that..
circumcision was not necessary for salvation
What was the fundamental social unit of Inca society?
clan (ayllu)
Who were plebeians?
commoners
The Romans were the first to use --- in construction of public buildings
concrete
The very first generations of believers in Jesus Christ were...
deeply committed to the Law
What was the basic unit of African society?
family, clan
What is the term historians use to label a political-economic system where complex contractual relationships between the lord and the vassals exist?
feudalism
What was "chinampas"?
floating gardens
Which of the following practices was widespread among the upper classes?
foot-binding
Which of the following is NOT one of the Five Pillars of Islam
healthy diet
Which of the following isn't true? In ancient Greece...
honesty was highly honored, respected, and widely practiced
The Greeks were known for emphasizing virtues, which virtue did the Greeks held in disdain?
humility
Which of the following is Johann Gutenberg's contribution to society?
improvement of the printing press
What is the significance of the Popul Vuh?
it was the major source of information about the creation of the world for the Mayas
Who were the patricians?
land owners
What practice was widespread and common among the ancient scribes?
memorization
According to Paul, how many people witnesses Jesus alive after the resurrection?
more than 500
Who are missi dominici?
official auditors
Who sponsored the exploration expeditions organized by the Dutch?
private investors
"Jus gentium" (law of peoples) was meant to...
protect the rights of both citizens and non-citizens, of natives and foreigners
Islam means..
submission to Allah
Who of the following eliminated slavery from European societies during the Middle Ages?
the Church
Thomas Aquinas belonged to which monastic order?
the Dominican
Who introduced "hereditary occupations"?
the Mongols
Which of the following was the first civilization in the Americas?
the Olmec Civ
How did the Romans call the period of peace and great prosperity that started with the reforms of Gaius Octavian Augustus?
the Pax Romana
Who were the "tecuhtli" among the Aztecs?
the class of warriors
What is Periplus?
the earliest surviving literary evidence of the city states of East Africa
Who effectively decided how to name the New World, "America"?
the mapmakers
Why is the Year 1096 an important date in Jewish history? It is important because of...
the massacre of Jews
Who forced King John to recognize the Magna Carta document?
the nobility (burghers)
Of all the persecutions of Christians under different emperors which persecution was chronologically the last?
the one under Diocletian
What event triggered a rebellion against the despotic and oppressive regime of the king Tarquinius, the last king over the Romans?
the rape of Lucretia
When Muslims speak of Islam being monotheistic religion, and Allah being monotheistic, they place an emphasis on...
the resurrection of Jesus Christ
What is oligarchy?
the rule of the few
What was the attitude of the Confucian teachers toward the trade of goods?
they considered it necessary but lowly
Why did the First Emperor order a census of the population?
to help him figure out the tax revunes
What was the first priority of each young bride soon after the wedding?
to win over the mother-in-law
Which popular movement advocated "educational programs that emphasized liberal arts, rhetoric, study of Greek and Latin, the Church Fathers, etc..."?
urbanites
What is the meaning of the term "ghana"?
war chief
Which of the following behaviors the Nahua tradition encouraged?
warfare
