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He was the Russian leader who finally pushed out the Mongols. | Ivan III |
He tripled the size of Russia. | Ivan III |
This is the fortress in Moscow, Russia, which is the base for the country's government. | The Kremlin |
He rebuilt the Kremlin. | Ivan III |
This helped Ivan III rid Russia of Mongols and triple its size. | Firearms |
This is the largest country on the world. | Russia |
Russian term for "King" | Tsar |
Tsar is the Russian version of this Roman word: | Caesar |
Main thing that Ivan III (Ivan the Great) did for Russia. | He EXPANDED it |
Main thing that Peter the Great did for Russia as tsar. | He MODERNIZED it. |
he was a seven-foot-tall Russian tsar. | Peter I |
He took eighteen months off to travel in disguise through Europe to learn about their ways. | Peter I |
Thing Peter I brought into Russia from the West: | The printing press, new clothing styles, architectural ideas, and a new western calendar. |
He reorganized Russia's military and civil service to be more like Europe's: | Peter I |
In a war with Sweden, Russain tsar Peter I gained this: | Land on the Baltic Sea. |
What gaining land on the Baltic Sea gave Russia: | An outlet to the Atlantic and a way to sail to Europe. |
This is Russia's European-styled capital city: | St. Petersburg (guess where the name came from) |
Gutenberg improved an invention from this culture: | China |
Gutenberg used this existing invention to make a printing press: | An olive press. |
Gutenberg did this for a living: | Jeweler |
This was the main innovation gutenberg added to the printing press: | Metal, moveable type. |
Advantage of metal, moveable type: | It can be reused hundreds of times and can changed to make different words and pages. |
Main result of Gutenberg's printing press: | Expanded literacy (more people learned and wanted to learn how to read) |
The printing press helped spread the revolutionary religious ideas of this man: | Martin Luther (NOT Martin Luther King) |
Why the Black Death helped weaken people's faith in the Catholic Church: | Prayer did not appear to protect them from disease and death, like the Church said it would. |
This philosophy, focusing on our lives on earth right now, rather than heaven is: | Humanism |
This word, used by Luther, means "arguments: | Theses |
Luther nailed this to the door of a Catholic church in Germany in 1517: | His "95 Theses" |
Martin Luther's main gripe with Catholic Church practices: | Thier sales of "indulgences" |
This was a practice where people with money could pay the church for their sins, getting forgiveness. | Indulgences |
Luther believed there was little need for Catholic priests or rituals because: | He thought that people could have a direct relationship with God, and could now read the Bible for themselves (thanks to the printing press). |
Before the printing press, Bibles were all written in this little-spoken language: | Latin |
Now that people could actually read the Bible in their own languages for themselves, they began to question the Church's positions on: | Church practices, science, politics, and society |
Martin Luther's rebellion on the Catholic Church is now called: | The Protestant Reformation |
Origin of the word "Protestant" | PROTEST |
New Catholic religious order that headed the church's Counter-Reformation: | The Jesuits |
Good things the Jesuits did: | They promoted education, sent missionaries to Asia and America, and the sale of indulgences was stopped (Luther is happy!) |
Bad things the Jesuits did during the Counter-Reformation: | They burned books that they thought were against their religion, and put suspected enemies of the Church on trial, turturing and imprisoning thousands. |
This was a system of Church courts that placed suspected sinners and heretics on trial. | The Inquisition |
This is a person accused of going against God: | A HERETIC |
The Inquisition was especially bad in this country: | Spain |
Christians pushed out these people from Spain, who had ruled a multicutural, multi-religious society for centuries. | The Muslim Moors. |
Spanish Catholics pushed the Muslim Moors back to this region: | North Africa (Morocco today) |
The expulsion of the Muslims from Spain is called: | The Reconquista (the reconquering) |