WYHS AP Euro Word List Test 1
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- Al-Qaeda
- A global terrorist network led by Osama bin Laden
- Nelson Mandela
- Created the African National Congress and hated by Mr. C.
- Areopagus
- a prestigious governing council of ancient Athens
- Antigonids
- Hellenistic dynasty that ruled in Macedonia from ~300BCE-150BCE
- Ahura Mazda
- The Zoroastrian beneficial god of light
- Arian Christianity
- A 4th cent. heresy that taught that jesus wasn't made of the same substance as his father, and had therefore been created
- Civic Humanists
- Petrarch influenced the ___ ___, who wished to teach their own classical knowledge to the public; studied Greek
- Italian
- The ____ Renaissance writers were dealt in secular concerns
- Leonardo Bruni
- He created an educational program for women
- Oration on the Dignity of Man
- Pico della Mirandola's book that portrays Plato's opinion on the limits of our senses
- Rinascita
- Means rebirth; the root of the word "Renaissance"
- Absolutism
- A govt in which all power is vested in the ruler
- Archon
- A chief magistrate in ancient Athens
- Medici
- The ___ family used their wealth from banking to rule Florence
- Individualism
- States that people should receive personal credit for their achievements (instead of it glory going to their god)
- Cicero
- A politician and philosopher in the Roman Republic; a brilliant Latin stylist
- Georgio Vasari
- A 16th cent painter, architect, and writer; described his era as "rinascita"
- Ancien Regime
- The traditional political and social order in Europe before the French Revolution
- Allies
- The two alliances against Germany and its partners in WW1/2
- Abstract Expressionism
- A 20th century painting style infusing nonrepresentational are with strong personal feelings
- Absolute Monarch
- A Euro. monarch claiming complete political authority
- Lorenzo Valla
- A critic who disproved that Constantine gave the west half of his land to the pope by pointing out an anomaly in the vocabulary used in the document the "Donation of Constantine"
- 1304-1374
- Which years did Francesco Petrarch live through?
- Christine de Pisan, The City of Ladies
- __ _ __ received a humanist education; wrote ___ which said women weren't inferior to men when making moral choices
- Popolo
- The urban underclass
- Plato
- Believed there is truth/beauty that is beyond our perception, and using reason on could get get beyond the limits imposed by his/her sentences
- Akkadian
- A Semitic language in a region of ancient Meopotamia
- Age of Reason
- The 18th cent. Enlightenment; sometimes includes 17th cent. science and philosophy
- Agricultural Revolution
- Neolithic discovery of agriculture; agricultural changes that began in 18th cent western Europe
- Aramaic
- A northwest Semitic language that spread throughout the region - the language used in the Gemara
- African National Congress
- An organization that launched a campaign to protest segregation in South Africa
- Albigensian Crusade
- The atack and slaughter of the Cathars, a religious group in southern France accused of heresy
- North European
- The __________ Renaissance writers dealt with religious concerns
- Ahriman
- The Zoroastrian evil god of darkness
- Milan, signor, Sforza
- In the city of ____, the Ciompi Revolt caused a tyrant, called a ______, to take over, followed by the ____ family
- Agora
- A marketplace or a place of public assembly in ancient Greece
- Anti-Semitism
- Prejudice against the Jews
- Ciompi Revolt
- The popolo in Florence revolted against the gov't, taking control for a brief period of time. This was called the ______
- Apartheid
- Segregation
- The Courtier
- Castiglione's book that said a multilingual man who was skilled in classical literature and the arts was the ideal man
- Act of Union
- Formal unification of England and Scotland in 1707
- Appeasement
- British and French policy in the 1930s that tried to keep peace in Europe in the face of German aggression by making concessions
- Holy Roman
- The ____ Empire ruled Italian towns during the Middle Ages
- Anarchism
- Late 19th/early 20th cent. ideology and movement against all government authority and private property
- Albigensians
- A medieval French heretical sect that believed in 2 gods - an evil and a good principle. AKA the Cathars
- 1378
- The popolo in Florence revolted against the gov't, taking control for a brief period of time, IN THE YEAR ______
- Francesco Petrarch
- ____ _____ is considered the father of humanism; was a lawyer; coined the phrase "Dark Ages;" familiarized himself w/ Cicero's writings