Hist 107 Mid term Exam (UMUC)
1. Animism – The belief that the forces of nature are inhabited by spirits
2. Hammurabi: written law – created by Babylon’s 6th ruler
3. Egyptian theocracy – a form of government that claims to rule on behalf of a god or deity.
4. Egyptian women – enjoyed a large degree of economic independence
5. India: Hinduism – the most ancient of the world’s religions today
6. Reincarnation – the belief that after a biological death the soul can begin a new life in a new body.
7. Daoism – philosophical system developed by Lao-tzu and Chuang-tzu advocating a simple honest life and noninterference with the course of natural events. It is also known as Taoism.
8. Socrates – Athens’ foremost philosopher
9. Plato’s Republic – Plato’s landmark treatise
10. Aristotle’s Ethics – Examines the Theory of the Good Life and the Nature of Happiness
11. Confucian thought – human beings must obey a moral order that is fixed in nature.
12. ethical monotheism – the belief that a single, benevolent, all- knowing god requires obedience to divine laws of right conduct
13. feudalism – the system of political organization prevailing in Europe between the ninth and fifteenth centuries and having as its basis the exchange of land for military defense
14. medieval serfs – peasants who worked his lord’s land and paid him dues. for use of his land (usually in the form of labor).
15. the code of courtly love – contributed to shaping modern Western concepts of gender and courtship.
16. the medieval Church – the Roman Catholic Church
17. the Black Death – The Bubonic plague was the most devastating natural catastrophe of the 14th century
18. the Hundred Years’ War – a war between England and France that lasted more than 100 years
19. the decline of the Church – The growth of the European nation- states contributed to the weakening of the Christian commonwealth
20. Cervantes – Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616) is a towering figure in sixteenth-century literature
21. Shakespeare – a literary giant of the Northern Renaissance
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