Stephanie Landry

luddites workers that attacked factories and machines they blamed for taking their jobs. industrialization a momentous shift from a rural agrarian economy, in which people lived off the land and made goods by hand, to an urban manufacturing economy, in which goods were made in urban factories by machine. enclosures 610 proletariat a large class […]

Australopithecus genus of human ancestors that lived in Africa, now extinct Homo Erectus human ancestor that had upright skeletons, stronger builds than the Australopithecus, but smaller brains then H. Sapiens Homo Sapeins current humans, larger brains allowed for more success than the H. Erectus Paleolithic Age “old stone age,” beginning of stone tools for convince, […]

Knossos an ancient Minoan city on the island of Crete Shrine altar, chapel, or other sacred place fresco colorful painting completed on wet plaster Trojan War in Greek epic poems and myths. a ten-year war between Mycenae and the city of Troy in Asia Minor Strait narrow water passage Homer A Greek poet, author of […]

question Self-Portrait answer Albrecht Durer, 1500 Image in the likeness of God question The four Horsemen of the Apocalypse answer Woodcut, 1497-1498, Albrecht Durer question Adam and Eve answer Engraving, 1504, Albrecht Durer question Four Apostles answer Left, Peter in back of John and Right Mark behind Paul Albrecht Durer 1526. Oil on wood panel […]

question The sultan who presided over a “golden age” and the greatest ottoman assault on Christian Europe was answer Sulieman the magnificent question As ottoman armies pressed into Eastern Europe and the Mediterranean, they fought many wars with who? answer The Safavid empire question A new fourteenth-century ottoman military resource was the Christian prisoners of […]

question Cold War answer A conflict between countries, with no actual fighting question Iron curtain answer A barrier of secrecy that kept Soviet controlled nations apart from the rest of Europe question Satellite answer A nation controlled by another country question Containment answer A policy of preventing a country from expanding its power question Refugee […]

question aggregate answer population subgroup in a community made up of people who share one or more common characteristics question census tract answer population boundary that subdivides larger communities and is used expressly for data collection and population assessment by the US Bureau of the Census question community diagnosis answer consists of four components: identification […]

question 1. prehistory vs. history answer Prehistory – no written documents; History: written proof of history question 2. features of civilization answer Social etiquette, religion, education, literature question 3. stages of hominid development answer Austrolopithecus, homo habilis, homo erectus, homo sapiens question 4. “Out of Africa” thesis vs. multiregional thesis answer Humans originated from Africa […]

question Congo Square answer a place where slaves were permitted to dance, now called Louis Armstrong Park, danced in ring-shouts question Minstrel show answer developed before the Civil War. White performers would wear black makeup and mimic and ridicule the slave population, replaced by Vaudeville by 1900 question Work songs answer purely African in nature, […]

question Autocracy answer A political theory favoring unlimited authority by a single individual question Cossacks answer peasants recruited to migrate to newly seized lands in Russia, particularly in south; combined agriculture with military conquests; spurred additional frontier conquests and settlements. question Dalai Lama answer Chief lama and once ruler of Tibet question Jesuits answer Also […]

question Knossos answer The capital of the ancient Minoan civilization; located on the island of Crete off the coast of present-day Greece. question Shrine answer areas dedicated to the honor of gods and goddesses question Fresco answer watercolor paintings done on wet plaster question Trojan War answer in Greek epic poems and myths, a ten-year […]

question Judaism Place/Date of Origin answer Caanan or Israel. About 400 BC question Judaism Founder/Founding Story answer Abraham traveled from Mesopotamia to Caanan, with the faith that God would bless his descendants if they worshiped him. From Abraham came Isaac and Jacob. Over 1,000 years after Abraham, the Jews were slaves in Egypt. Moses led […]

question The statement that “culture is the complex whole” was made by: answer Edward B. Tylor question Which discipline defines itself as “the systematic study of human society?” answer sociology question What is the term for the ways of thinking, ways of acting, and material objects that together form a people’s way of life? answer […]

question Ibn rushd answer Spanish-Arab philosopher; also known as Averroes; influenced by Aristotle, his best known writings explore the relationship between reason and faith question sultan answer the sovereign ruler of a Muslim state question qadis answer Muslim judges who carried out the judicial functions of the state. question abbasid answer dynasty that overthrew the […]

question Italian Renaissance, 1400s-1500s answer Secular in theme and focused on antiquity, individualism, humanism, and worldly experience. Subjects were often mythology, human form. Techniques included perspective, chiaroscuro, sfumato, contrapasto. Centered in Florence, and later Rome. Important artists were Michelangelo, Da Vinci, Raphael, Titian, Brunelleschi. Medicis were most important patrons. question Northern Renaissance, 1400s-1500s answer Less […]

question During the post classical period, societies in the Americas answer Remained entirely separate from those of the Old World. question Which of the following was NOT a characteristic of American civilization during the post classical period? answer Monotheistic practices question The northern nomadic peoples who entered central Mexico following the decline of Teotihuacan were […]

question Native American (Indian) civilization was least highly developed in answer North America question Which of the following New World plants revolutionized the International economy? answer potatoes question The existence of a single original continent has been proved by the presence of answer A.similiar mountain ranges on the various continents B.the discovery of nearly identical […]

question Feudalism answer a political and social system that developed during the Middle Ages; nobles offered protection and land in return for service question Nobles answer persons of noble or ‘honorable’ rank or birth. Ranked as: King – Lord – Knight question Commoners answer People who were not part of the nobility or the church. […]

question The class of disorders that are marked by delusions, hallucinations, disorganized speech, and deterioration of adaptive behavior is known as A. anxiety disorder. B. schizophrenic disorders. C. dissociative disorders. D. personality disorders. answer B question Seligman’s concept of preparedness BEST accounts for the development of A. obsessive-compulsive disorder. B. posttraumatic stress disorder. C. an […]

question federal deficit answer the difference produced with the government spends more than it collects during a year question apartheid answer a policy in South Africa of complete separation of the races question nation building answer the support of developing governments in foreign countries question genetic engineering answer the act of working on genes to […]

question July 5, 1954 answer Elvis dropped “That’s All Right” at Sun Studio. question September 9, 1956 answer Elvis debuted on the Ed Sullivan Show. Sullivan paid him $50,000 to do three shows. question February 3, 1959 answer “The Day the Music Died” – Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J.P. “The Big Bopper” Richardson died […]

question Which philosopher believed that sense perceptions and observations are essential for knowledge? A. Socrates B. Plato C. Hippocrates D. Aristotle answer D. Aristotle question Sigmund Freud learned about his patients by conducting experiments in his laboratory. answer False question Which philosopher suggested that the mind and body are separate but that a link exists […]