HIEU Course

Conditions of life in Early Modern Europe correct answers *Unstable Feudal order eroding- nobles, peasants *World of death- "nasty, brutish, short", poverty was the norm, average lifespan of 25-27 years *The killers: WAR, plague (Black Death killed ⅓ of population), childbirth, starvation, hy...

Ziggurats correct answers Sumerian temples made of sun-dried brick Cuneiform correct answers A form of writing developed by the Sumerians using a wedge shaped stylus and clay tablets. Nile River correct answers The river in which early kingdoms in Egypt were centered around. Lower Egypt cor...

Third Estate correct answers The unemployed, skilled craftsmen, and peasants, made up this social group in Pre-Revolution France? Great Britain correct answers Agricultural improvements in this European country helped it to industrialize? Belgium, France, Germany correct answers Name 3 states ...

Role of the Catholic Church correct answers - arbiters of information - has their own court system - used as a bank, decides how the people spend their money - have a lot of land but don't use it Louis XIV correct answers - "Sun King" - had Divine Right to Rule - awarded nobility by Venal...

Koine Greek correct answers common dialect which was the official language of the roman empire Idiotes correct answers A Greek term which refers to noncitizens and private persons. Epicureanism correct answers philosophy that pleasure is the absence of pain Stoicism correct answers the phil...

Ancien Regime correct answers political structure in pre-revolution France that consisted of absolutism and class orders/estates Absolutism correct answers system of government in which both legislative and executive power was concentrated in the hands of a king who could act w/o any legal limita...

Article 58 correct answers Permit the arrest of counter-revolutionary, led to the arrest of many innocent people and powerful people who could be a threat to Stalinist regime. Long sentences, ended up usually 25 yr in gulag Kirov correct answers head of the Leningrad Party Association and ally of...

Otto von Bismarck correct answers - Conservative Prussian statesman who dominated German and European affairs from the 1860s until 1890 and was the first Chancellor of the German Empire between 1871 and 1890. Robespierre correct answers - leader of the Committee of Public Safety; chief architect ...

Two main sources for early Greek History correct answers Written and Material sources Archaeological findings contributed to correct answers Material sources Greek History began with the age of (8th century B.C.) correct answers Homer Two major material source breakthroughs in the 19th ce...

Christopher Columbus correct answers -1451-1506 -Genoese sailor and merchant - 1492 lands in bahamas -4 voyages to new world, thought he was fulfilling God's prophecy in order to find the New World Peace of Lodi correct answers -peace agreement between Milan, Naples, and Florence signed 145...

"Witch Persecution at Bamberg, 1628" and "The Methods of the Persecutions" correct answers Directly coinciding the Reformation and Counterreformation, the witch hunts represent the enormous hostility and intolerance to other beliefs. The reformation's goals were to 1) change behavior and 2) red...