History Quiz 5
The basic years of the Renaissance were _____________.
14th to 16th century
The Egyptian city of ___________ was the greatest leading cultural and intellectual center of the Hellenistic civilization.
Alexandria
The Swiss reformer, Hyldrich Zwingli, disagreed with both Martin Luther and Calvin over the issue of whether ___.
Christ was present in the bread and wine of the Eucharist or Holy Communion, known as transubstantiation
The general Church council that began as a reaction to Protestant reformation and shaped the essential character of Catholicism until 1960s was called the ______________________.
Council of Trent
The Christian humanist and the most famous theologian courted by both Catholics and Protestants was _____.
Desiderius Erasmus
The present day ________________ is a country where prehistoric predecessors of modern humans first emerged and once was the center of once thriving Aksumite civilization.
Ethiopia
As Ibn Battuta discovered during his travels, the status of women in the Islamic world of the 14th century was nearly the same everywhere. True or False?
False
In regard to state-building in West Africa, it can be said that _____________________.
Ghana was the first commercial state warfare with the Berber nomads led to the eventual destruction of Ghana trade and commerce were the primary factors for the growth and decline Mali replaced Ghana as the dominant trading power in the region all of the above
The largest and most significant of all the Egyptian pyramids ever built as symbol of the power of the pharaohs and the spiritual conviction of the Egyptian society is the Pyramid of _____________.
Giza
Which of the following was a unique idea of Calvinist teaching?
God had foreordained those who will be saved and those who will not, and man cannot change it
The basis of the 'good news' concerning Christ and his teaching was the written _________.
Gospels
The event that pushed Henry VIII to confront the Pope was ___________.
Henry's desire to get divorce
According to most archaeologists and paleontologists ________________.
Homo Erectus evolved into Homo Sapiens only on the African continent
The French Calvinists were called _________________.
Huguenots
The French Protestants are known as ___________________.
Huguenots
The Reformation leader and author who established a model Protestant community in Geneva was ______.
John Calvin
_____________ was among the great patrons of the Renaissance art.
Lorenzo de' Medici
"I cannot and I will not recant anything, for it neither safe nor right to act against one's conscience. Here I stand. I can do no other"? This statement was made by _________.
Marti Luther
One of the great river systems on which the economic and political success of the Mali empire rested was the _______.
Niger
The major opposition to Rome's rule in North Africa came from the Berbers, known as ___________..
Numidians
Under the Abbasid dynasty ____________________.
Persian influence was stronger and the Muslims controlled a vast empire that produced massive wealth
The name ____________ Civilization refers to a sophisticated urban civilization that emerged in East African coast that is essentially African with Arabic influence.
Swahili
Which of the following provoked large-scale rebellion in the Netherlands against Spanish rule?
The Spanish king attempted to suppress a Calvinist movement in the Netherlands.
Which of the following conflicts is the largest and the final religious conflict to unfold in the wake of the Peace of Westphalia?
The Thirty years' War
What political motivation in England encouraged conversion to Protestantism?
The king's desire to end his marriage and remarry led him to want to break with the Catholic church.
The establishment of the concept of separation of religious and political matters in public affairs was probably the most significant outcome of the _____________ _______________..
Thirty Years' War
The most destructive European conflict before the twentieth century was _________.
Thirty Years' War
In 15th and 16th centuries, the West African city of _______________, whose conquest by Songhay signalled the terminal decline of Mali Empire, became a legend for its economic and intellectual achievements.
Timbuktu
Hammurabi, as far as we know, was the first ruler to issue a detailed legal code. True or False?
True
The institution of serfdom encouraged the development of the manor as the principal form of agricultural organization in western Europe. True or False?
True
The ancient Indian ascetism that eventually evolved into the modern practice of body training is ________.
Yoga
The leader of Protestant Reformation in Switzerland was _____________________.
Zwingli
Ibn Battuta was ___________. the Sultan of Delhi
a Moroccan legal scholar who travelled extensively in Africa and elsewhere and recorded his observations
Central to Renaissance thought was ________.
a fascination with the ancient classical world
. Which of the following practices did the Muslim scholar and traveller, Ibn Battuta, find as unique to West African societies ?
a lineage system that was matrilineal rather than patrilineal more relaxed behavior pattern between the sexes both A and C
The European Renaissance is characterized by all of the following EXCEPT
a repudiation of Christian values.
The Peace of Westphalia, which ended the Thirty Years' War, established
an agreement among European states to regard each other as sovereign and equal.
Martin Luther advocated which of the following?
an end to the authority of the pope
What did the mystery religions or cults have in common with Christianity?
an experience of spiritual rebirth leading to mystical union with the god
Social practices that were unique to many African societies were _________________.
behaviour patterns between the sexes that were more relaxed than those found in societies in other parts of the world
.______________ is the title/name given to the successors of the Prophet Muhammad
caliph
Who benefited most from the religious controversy generated by the Reformation?
centralizing monarchs, because they strengthened their states and authority
Which of the following was not a position held by Martin Luther and the proponents of Reformation?
clergy is essential for mediation between God and mankind
The caliph was _______________________.
considered both the political and spiritual successor of the prophet Muhammad
The Hellenization process __________________________.
created Graeco-Macedonian domination of the population centres of the Middle East was much less significant in rural areas A and D
Ignatius of Loyola was instrumental in _________.
creating the Society of Jesus
Which of the following was a decision of the Council of Trent?
demand that church authorities observe strict standards of morality
The Council of Trent in its reaction to the Reformation took the position that ___________.
faith and good works were required for salvation
Eastern Orthodoxy ______________________.
had a stronger urban base when compared to Roman Catholicism
. The beliefs of Judaism _____________________.
include the idea that God is just
Among the various activities that the pious in medieval Europe would do to ensure less suffering in purgatory was to go on pilgrimage, do good works or buy _________________.
indulgences
How did the social and economic changes caused by Rome's imperial expansion affect Roman politics?
it divided the ruling elite into factions that sought power either by supporting or opposing reform beneficial to the common people
The foundation of the Protestant Reformation was the belief in the concept of ______________.
justification by faith viewing the Bible as the sole authority on religious matters B and C
The most important relationship in a feudalist society was between _________.
lord and vassal
The Songhay empire was originally part of ______________ empire.
mali
The Catholic Church dramatically pushed the sale of indulgences in the 16th century because of the ______.
need to raise funds for the construction of St. Peter's basilica in Rome
According to Plato, the ideal government is under the rule of ___________________.
philosopher-king
Belief in ________________ that derives from absolute sovereignty of God was a doctrine promoted by the Swiss Protestant Reformation leader, John Calvin.
predestination
Humanists were ________________.
proponents of classical scholarship
"Justification by faith" is one of the two basic ideas that underlies the ___________________ Reformation.
protestant
The term Hadith in Islamic literature denotes _________________________.
reports of the sayings and actions of Muhammad
The papal policy that prompted Martin Luther to write the 95 theses was _____________.
sale of indulgences
A Renaissance humanist was one who
sought to reconcile Christian values with engagement in public life.
Karl Marx blamed the early cities for creating this fundamental antagonism of human society ____________.
strife between city and countryside
In response to the challenges raised by the Protestant Reformation, the Catholic church
summoned a council to clarify doctrine and strengthen their spiritual commitment.
The Thirty Years' War began when
the Holy Roman emperor tried to force his Bohemian subjects to return to Catholicism.
In the first century A. D., the main military threat to the Roman empire in North Africa was posed by ______.
the Numidians
Which of the following was a consequence of the Peace of Westphalia?
the emergence of independent sovereign states
Martin Luther's criticism of the Roman Catholic church was greatly aided by
the printing press.
All of the following were the pillars of the Catholic counter-reformation EXCEPT________.
the religious fervor of the Renaissance popes
Martin Luther's reformation initiative was triggered by ____________________.
the sale of indulgences
The Bantu migration resulted in which of the following?
the spread of Bantu language, culture, and agricultural practices throughout large parts of Africa
Which of the following is true of the Swahili civilization?
the term derives from the Arab word for "coast" as a language, it uses Bantu grammar with a mixture of Arabic it is a sophisticated urban society, Muslim in its belief and Black African in its population and culture it was a civilization that emerged well before the arrival of Islam all of the above
The Shi'ites _____________________.
thought that descendants of Ali should be imam/caliph
What was the principle work of the Society of Jesus (the Jesuits)?
to be disciplined, educated missionaries of the Catholic church
What was the primary purpose for Bartolomeu Dias's voyage around the Cape of Good Hope and into the Indian Ocean?
to eliminate the role of Muslim and Italian intermediaries in the Asian silk and spice trades.
What was the original task of the Spanish Inquisition?
to root out those who practiced Judaism or Islam
The Reformation _________________.
took different turns in different parts of Europe
The issue of ________________, particularly as it relates to Christ=s real or symbolic presence in the bread and wine of the Eucharist was the major difference between the Protestant reformers.
transubstantiation
In what key way did the largest empire depicted on the map—the Umayyad Caliphate—differ from the other great empires of Asia?
It was formed as a means of spreading a monotheistic religion.
Which two cults worshipped a loving, compassionate deity who cared for the suffering and offered life after death for believers?
Isis and Christianity
West African trade _______________________.
was dependent heavily upon the camel to deliver goods to Europe
Henry VIII's Reformation Settlement in England _________.
was much more politically driven than by Luther's throughout
The Neolithic Age ______________.
was named for the characteristics of its tools
Kush _______________.
was populated by Black Africans
Discuss important developments in Renaissance art and architecture.
• Art and architecture developed new techniques and skills during the Renaissance. • In Italian art, artists in search of more realistic depictions studied the human form and represented the emotions of their subjects. • They also developed linear perspective, a new technique that allowed representation of three-dimensional space on a two-dimensional canvas. • Renaissance architects rediscovered the technique of domed architecture, absent in Europe since the collapse of the Roman empire. • The dome of the cathedral of Florence, which still stands today, is an example of this rediscovered architectural method.
Discuss key features of the Peace of Westphalia of 1648.
• The Peace of Westphalia (1648) ended the Thirty Years' War and laid the foundations for a system of competing, independent European states. • The treaty's terms mandated that European states recognize each other as sovereign and equal. • It also mutually recognized their rights to organize their own domestic affairs, including religious affairs. • It agreed that political and diplomatic affairs were to be conducted by states acting in their own interests
