History-Unit 1-Change in Europe 24/25

Proselytising

convert or attempt to convert (someone) from one religion, belief, or opinion to another

Why was Islam not a miracle religion?

Islam had a very logical way of thinking not like Christianity believing in miracles

When and where was the birth of the renaissance?

12th century in Toledo, Spain

Where did western culture start?

Ancient Greece

Who started the first crusade and the first peoples crusade?

Pope Urban II started the first official and Peter the Hermit started first peoples crusade

When renaissance started what happened to art and music?

Both got more depth, feeling of layers, background and foreground

Who traveled to Italy in 1505 to explore rising renaissance ideas, on how to draw the human body?

Albrecht Dürer

Who kept western culture alive and rebooted it after the knowledge cities, Jerusalem and Constantinople fell?

Arabs

In what year did Muhammed begin receiving what muslims consider as divine revelations and where were these collected?

In the year 610 divine revelations started forming the Quran (Koran)

What were some contributions of Islam?

Arabic numerals, algebra and alchemy (chemistry) and the practical application of theory to solving problem of travel (astrolabe) and urban design in the towns of Al-Andalus (Muslim Iberia.)

When was the Fall of Toledo?

In the year 1085

When was the First Crusade?

In the year 1095

When did Genghis Khan become ruler of all the Mongols?

In the year 1206

When was the Fall of Constantinople?

In the year 1453

What was Toledo before the take over of christians?

It was a cultural center of islamic arts and science

What was in Toledo, created by Aristotle that had unimaginable information for christians?

Aristotle had translated texts from greek to arabic in Toledo

A system based on what did the christians discover in Toledo?

A system based on nature, on rational thinking

What is tessellation in the context of islamic geometric patterns?

It is the multiplication or the action of repeating the base pattern many times

Why can you find islamic architecture in Spain?

because Spain was conquered by muslims

What does Egalitarian mean?

Something is equal, the same or it doesn’t matter

What does merit mean?

Your past actions are your merit, “the good samaritans have outstanding merit”

Who created the silk roads?

The Mongolian empire

When was the bubonic plague or black death ?

1347-1350

How many people were killed by the bubonic plague?

1/3 of Europe was killed

How long did it take a person to die from the Black Death?

maximum 4 days

What types of the plague were there?

Bubonic, Pneumonic and Septicaemic plague

Who documented the deaths of the plague?

the court taking in the wills of infected people

What does social mobility mean?

The flexibility of moving between social classes, up and down

What caused the peasant revolt in 1381, just in England?

The three different poll taxes started by the King