Summer 2020 Global I Important People Quiz

Who united most of the ancient world into one empire (see the picture above)?

• Archimedes

• Philip II

• Alexander the Great

• Plato

Who tutored Alexander the Great?

• Plato

• Aristotle

• Socrates

• Pythagoras

Hellenistic culture includes

• Greek, Indian, Egyptian & Persian influences

• influences from China and the Far East

• the culture of the ancient Celtics

• the culture of the Mayan and Olmec people in Mezo-America

The ideas of Greek philosophers, scientists, poets, and playwrights influenced people's thinking from Egypt to India. This new culture was called ________________.

• Siege Train
• Hellenistic
• Alexandria
• Greece

Alexander built the great city of _______________ in Egypt on the Nile Delta. This became a crossroads of trade and ideas in the Hellenistic world.

• Greece
• Macedonia
• Alexandria
• Bucephalus

Which of these areas was not part of the Hellenistic world?

• Egypt
• Greece
• Southwest Asia
• China

What were Indulgences?

• Prayers performed after eating to much food

• Leaders within the Catholic Church

• Pardons for sins sold by the Catholic Church

• Positions within the Catholic Church sold to the highest bidder

What invention helped to spread the information of the Reformation?

• The Globe
• The Mona Lisa
• The Paint Brush
• The Printing Press

What was the Protestant Reformation?

• An attempt to overthrow the Pope and replace him with a Frenchman.

• An attempt to reform the Catholic practices that were considered corrupt.

• A call for Christian Europe to reclaim the Holy Land from the Arabs.

• An argument over leadership of the Catholic Church that led to the election of 3 Popes

Martin Luther suggested which change to church practice?

• Printing the Bible in the vernacular so all could read it
• Installing statues of saints in churches.
•  Saying mass in Latin so the faithful would learn it.
• Increasing the sale of indulgences