Final Exam Review

Flashcards for Final Exam Review

Griot

Stories and songs used to transfer lessons.

Bantu

A group of travelers used slash-and-burn techniques.

Mansa Musa

Led expansion, grew population, and developed the gold-salt trade in Mali; Muslim.

Sahara

Unfertile land, very hot and dry.

Sahel

Tropical climate, flat.

Mediterranean

Moderate temperature, coastal land.

Rain Forest

Hot, humid, dense land with good vegetation.

Oasis

Water scattered throughout the desert.

Desertification

Fertile land becoming desert.

Deforestation

Lack of biodiversity.

Obelisks / Stelae

Gravestones that told stories and events of a person's life.

Church of St. George

Famous church in Aksum.

Geez

Written and inscribed record of important events.

Adulis

City by the Red Sea; site of trade.

Christianity

Got religion through trade.

Ezana

Converted everyone to Christianity.

Terraces

Way of farming on uneven ground.

Timbuktu

Center of gold trade and Islamic learning.

Mosques

Place of worship built with sand.

Castiglione

Writer of book about ideal man and women.

Michelangelo

Renaissance sculptor and painter.

Donatello

Freestanding statue sculptor during the Renaissance.

Da Vinci

Used realism, a Renaissance man.

Humanism

Love of Greek and Roman learning.

Secularism

Life being separate from church, worldly pleasures.

Individualism

Wanting fame and to be remembered.

Patron

Helped artists and bought art.

Moore

Christian humanist who made fun of greed and love of church; believed in individual relation with God.

Utopia

Model for society.

Vernacular

People writing in their countries' language.

Martin Luther

Challenged the Catholic church

Henry VIII

Wanted a divorce so he broke from the Catholic Church

Elizabeth

Took over and set up the Anglican Church.

John Calvin

Believed God has chosen people and wanted government run by religious leaders; ran Geneva with strict rules.

Ignatius of Loyola

Catholic; created book telling you how to pray and founded Jesuits; created schools to educate priests; converted people.

95 Theses

Document challenging Catholic Church.

Protestant

Faith alone can save you.

Lutheran

Following Luther's ideas.

Excommunicate

Getting kicked out of the church.

Anglican

Church that combined Catholic and Protestant elements.

Copernicus

Made sun-centered theory.

Kepler

Proved Copernicus' theory by math.

Galileo

Proved sun-centered theory with telescope.

Newton

Founded gravity.

Locke

Can rebel if oppressed.

Montesquieu

Democracy and balanced government.

Rousseau

Believed in freedom; everyone is good; people should follow the rules.

Voltaire

Criticized people and wanted tolerance.

Beccaria

Believed in justice and speedy trial.

Wollstonecraft

Wanted equal rights for women.

Scientific Revolution

People questioning how things are.

Scientific Method

Finding facts from experimenting and questioning.

Enlightenment

Wanted new insight for the government.

Social Contract

People agree to follow laws.

Natural Rights

Everyone should have pursuit of happiness.

Separation of Powers

Each branch can hold each other accountable.

Salons

People holding meetings for thinkers.

Prince Henry

Helped explorers and wanted to spread Christianity.

Exploration Motivation

Glory, gold, goods, and God.

Impact on Africa

Africans used as slaves and got imperialized.

Berlin Conference

Agreement to imperialize Africa.

Indulgence

People paying for forgiveness.