Humanities Dr. Brook Final

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Augustine

A native of Africa, widely regarded as the most influential of all the Latin church fathers

Raga

A particular melodic sequence in traditional Indian music

Spain

During this era, the only toe-hold of European occupation claimed by the Islamic peoples

Mastabas

Early Egyptian tomb structures, usually single-story

Raphael

In 1510, Pope Julius II commissioned the following artist to execute a series of frescoes for the Vatican Stanza Della Segnatura, including the School of Athens

Mosaics

Interior spaces in early Christian churches were usually embellished with

Avignon

A major schism was created in the church by the relocation of the papacy from Rome to

Castiglione

Wrote The Book of the Courtier

Lollards

Wycliffe and his band of followers

Simony

The act of selling church leadership positions to the highest bidder regardless of qualifications

Giotto

The artist who brought a dramatic naturalism to his frescoes was the Florentine

Terracotta soldiers

Most significant artifact of the first emperor's tomb

Paul

Named the "apostle to the Gentiles" because of his extensive work to promote and grow a then-largely Hebraic Christianity

Buddha

Not one of the major Hindu gods

Mockery plays

Not one of the three types of medieval drama

Socrates

One af Athens' premier philosophers and proponent of questioning and inductive reasoning

Constantinople

The capitol city of the East Roman Empire

Florence

The city where the Renaissance was born in

Sanskirt

The classic language of ancient India

Hindu

Today, approximately 85% of India's population is

Ficino

Translated the entire body of Plato's writings from Greek into Latin

England

Where the Normans brought feudalism

Sculptor

An architect, poet, painter, and engineer, Michelangelo regarded himself first and foremost as

Pico della Mirandola

Applied his vast study of ancient literature to defend free will and the unlimited potential of the individual

The Silk Road

Chinese trade was largely conducted along an east-west land route that led eventually to Rome

Sappho

Cited as the greatest of the Athenian lyric poets

Thomas Aquinas

Considered the greatest of the so-called Scholastics, a Dominican theologian and teacher, and author of the major treatise Summa Theologica

The Medici

Cultural and political leadership for the early Renaissance was under the auspices of the following families

Excessive pride

Defines the term "hubris"

Tombs

Our knowledge of Egyptian visual art comes primarily from

Botticelli

Painted The Birth of Venus sometime after 1482

Brunelleschi

Responsible for the colossal and innovative dome of the cathedral (il Duomo) in Florence, Italy

Inscribed bones

Shang diviners heated to produce cracks the priest might then read to forecast the future

Alexander the Great

THe person responsible for "Hellenizing" North Africa and Central Asia

Christians

The Edict of Milan in the year 313 was a decree that halted the public persecution of

Charlemagne

The Frankish chieftain responsible for unifying early medieval Europe under CHristian leadership

Sati

The devotion of the upper-caste Hindu woman to her husband is dramatically expressed in a custom by which the wife threw herself on the funeral pyre of her late husband. This custom is called

The Persians

The early Greek city-states were forced to unite against the rising threat of

Machaut

The early, innovative composer of Church music who successfully unified the parts of the Mass into a single musical composition

Donatello

The first freestanding life-sized sculpture of a human since antiquity was created

Beowulf

The first monumental literary composition in a European vernacular language

Sumer

The first of Mesopotamia's many civilizations was the city of

The Tigris and Euphrates Rivers

The following geological features forms Mesopotamia

Paris

The intellectual melting pot of the medieval West

The imperial examination system

The main route to offical status in CHina throughout its long history

Decorated vases

The main source of our information regarding Greek painting during the Golden Age has come down from

Ziggurats

The massive, terraced towers of mud and brick constructed by the Mesopotamians

Romanesque

The medieval architects' return to cut stone (in the ancient Roman method) for vaulting in their expanded churches introduced the new style known as

Zeus

The most powerful deity of the Greek pantheon

Doric

The order the great temple of Athena in Athens uses

Parthenon

The outstanding architectural achievement of Golden Age in Athens

The Song of Roland

The quintessential lyrical representation of the fighting nobility in the feudal age

Herodotus

The so-called "father of history" who introduced a travelogue of his trips to Egypt and Asia

France

The style of Gothic architecture began in this country

The Analects

The written collection of Confucius's teachings


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