World History I – 2nd Semester Exam Study Guide

100 questions consisting of matching and multiple choice

Chapter 7 – Civilizations of the Americas
• Who were the earliest people to migrate to the Americas?
• What were the Incan Chosen women trained to do?
• Who made the elaborate clothing worn by the Sapa Inca?

Chapters 8 & 9 – Middle Ages/High Middle Ages

• Definitions: capital, charter, chivalry, fief, tithe, secular, serf, usury, scholasticism, common
law, vernacular, schism, crusade
• People: Leif Erickson, Charlemagne, Benedictine monks, apprentices, knights, medieval
merchants, troubadours, vassals, Innocent III, Isabella, Joan of Arc, Thomas Aquinas,
William the Conqueror
• Under feudalism, the lords granted land to the vassals in exchange for what?
• How did monks and nuns improve life during the Middle Ages?
• Who made up the largest part of the population in feudal society?
• What did the Cluniac reforms address?
• What was the Magna Carta?
• What was the Reconquista?
• What wee some results of the Black Plague?
Chapter 10 – Byzantine Empire & Russia
• Definitions: icon, boyar, czar, schism, autocrat
• People: Ivan the Great, Genghis Khan, Anna Comnena, Jadwiga, Justinian, Theodora,
Muhammad II, Jan Sobieski, Yaroslav
• Under whom did the Byz. Empire reach its greatest size?
Chapter 11 – The Muslim World
• Definitions: arabesque, hajj, millet, minaret, sultan
• Why did the split between the Sunni and Shiite Muslims occur?
• Sikhism blended the beliefs of Islam with those of which religion?

Chapter 14 – The Renaissance and Reformation

• Definitions: annul, gravity, patron, perspective, theocracy, heliocentric, humanism,
indulgence, predestination, recant
• People: John Calvin, Henry VIII, Da Vinci, Lorenzo de’Medici, Machiavelli
• What did the arts of the Renaissance focus on?
• Why did Luther criticize the Catholic Church?
• What theory did Copernicus propose?
• How did Henry VIII react to the Pope’s refusal to annul his marriage?

Essay:
• How do you think the ideas of chivalry influenced the modern notion of romantic love?
(what was chivalry? What idea did it have about women? Is that true today? What are some
examples of modern day chivalry?)
• Explain why Henry VIII broke with the Roman Catholic Church and what social and
religious changes occurred as a result? (Why did Henry VIII break away from the Church?
Did all of the people willingly convert? What happened if they did not convert to the Church
of England? What happened to the convents and monasteries? Was the new church very
different than the Catholic Church?)