european early history
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- The period of peace and prosperity initiated by Caesar Augustus was the
- PAX ROMANA
- Socrates was a great
- PHILOSOPHER
- What is missing from the bottom of this pyramid? Lords, Nobles, Tenants and
- SERFS
- The Portuguese explorer who sailed around the Cape of Good Hope to India was
- VASCO DA GAMA
- The Middle Ages ended and the pre-modern period began with the
- RENAISSANCE
- The inventor of moveable type was
- GUTTENGERG
- A written document that granted privileges and freedoms to city residents was a
- CHARTER
- Renaissance writers reached a wider audience by writing in
- THE LANGUAGE THEY SPOKE IN EVERY DAY
- When Christopher Columbus landed in the Americas, he thought he had sailed to
- THE EAST INDIES
- Sparta defeated Athens in the
- PELOPONESIAN WAR
- Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire under
- CONSTANTINE
- Workers' organizations that controlled industries were called
- GUILDS
- The mural on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel was painted by
- MICHAEL ANGELO
- Alexander the Great conquered and s pread the culture of
- GREECE
- A castle was often part of a
- MANOR
- A philosopher who believed that goverment should serve and protect the people and their freedom was
- JOHN LOCKE
- Julius Caesar was killed by
- THE MEMBERS OF HIS SENATE
- The idea that kings and queens ruled by the will of God was called
- THE DIVINE RIGHT OF KING
- During the Middle Ages, the political and social system was known as
- FEUDALISM
- Nobles who swore allegiance to the king were known as
- VASSALS
- What were farmers called who paid rent for their land and worked it as they pleased
- TENANT FARMERS
- Alexander the Great was best known for his
- MILITARY CAREER
- Alexander the Great was the founder of how many cities?
- 70
- Alexandria, Egypt, was founded in
- 331 B.C.
- The city in Egypt that was founded by Alexander the Great is
- ALEXANDRIA
- Who invented the printing press?
- GUTENBERG
- Constantine I moved his capital from Rome to
- CONSTANTINOPLE
- Who wrote the story of Don Quixote?
- MIGUEL DE CERVANTES
- The explorer who was the first to reach the Cape of Good Hope was
- BARTHOLOMEU DIAS
- The explorer who was the first to sail around the Cape of Good Hope was
- VASCO DA GAMA
- What did Martin Luther want to change?
- THE CATHOLIC CHURCH
- The capital of the Roman Empire during the empire's decline
- CONSTANTINOPLE
- Wrote The Canterbury Tales
- GEOFFREY CHAUCER
- The distribution of people, ideas, and diseases around the world by European explorers and settlers
- THE COLOMBIAN EXCHANGE
- A workers organization
- GUILD
- A body that took over power in England in the name of the people
- PARLIAMENT
- At one time, this city ruled lands surrounding the Mediterranean sea
- ROME
- Christian holy wars
- THE CRUSADES
- Wrote Romeo and Juliet
- WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
- Time of Ancient Greece and Rome
- CLASSICAL TIME
- Greek for "Love of Wisdom"
- PHILOSOPHY